On 11/07/2010 08:22 AM, Ross Sauer -> All wrote:  
   RS> The right-wing noise machine, eppecially the dope addict Glenn Beck are  
   RS> fond of throwing the word "scoialism" around, to smear those they don't  
   RS> like.  
    
  Parroting your gurus again, I see...  
    
   RS> Yet how do they actually know about *REAL* socialists, as opposed to  
   RS> their hysterical bogeyman in the closet?  
    
  Tell us what a real socialist is.  
    
   RS> In Milwaukee, in 1910 socialists won most of the elections in that  
   RS> city's government.  
    
  Wisconsin, the birth place of "progressivism. Coincidence? Not!  
    
   RS> They became known as "sewer socialists," not because of any of their  
   RS> policies being from the sewer, rather they made it a priority to  
  rebuild  
   RS> and update the city's antiquated sewer system.  
   RS> They also made it a priority to close down Milwaukee's then "red-light  
   RS> district," something the previous corrupt mayor allowed to operate.  
    
  You did some reading, but you seem not to understand what you read.  
    
   RS> All this was done by working with the business community of Milwaukee.  
    
   RS> And in Ohio, the Socialist party on Tuesday got 25,000 votes.  
    
  So what?  
    
   RS> Pure socialism in governments simply fails, every time.  
    
  Then, why do they keep trying?  
    
   RS> And labeling needed reforms that end predatory banking, corrupt food  
   RS> manufacturing and having dangerous workplaces is not "socialism."  
    
  Who said it was?  
    
   RS> In the late 1940's and early 1950's, anyone who opposed the status quo,  
   RS> which included vicious racism, was labeled a "communist."  
    
  That's a lie.  
    
   RS> Demagogues like Beck, Limbaugh, etc, never have given up the M. O.  
   RS> They just adapted it, a little.  
    
  Another lie. Quit listening to that Maddow guy.  
    
    
    
  You don't know what you are talking about.  
    
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