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From: nobody@nowhere.invalid
On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:36:18 -0800, JohnJohnsn wrote:
> On Feb 24, 6:30 pm, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
>>
>>
>> So just what is so "progressive" about the Left? Seems to me their
>> ideology is aimed at one thing and one thing alone: increasing the power
>> of central government at the expense of personal liberty. Everything
>> they advocate has that as the motivation and greater government control
>> of our lives as the end.
>>
>> So what is so progressive about that? Government control over people's
>> lives has been around for thousands of years. Escaping that sort of
>> control is why most of us, or our parents or our grandparents or great-
>> grandparents came here to get away from.
>>
>> Why do "progressives" favor that sort of imperial control over people's
>> lives rather than letting people have the liberty for which this country
>> was founded?
>>
>> What sort of progress does the Left have in mind for us?
>>
>>
> Know The Enemy - Communism
> Time for school.
>
> Today boys and girls, we will discuss communism, and why it remains as the
> greatest threat to humanity.
>
Communism has been tried. It failed. It is no longer a viable
political/economic system. It is no longer the greatest threat to anyone.
In America, capitalism is a much bigger threat.
Capitalism is in the process of failing, it's just taking longer. It has
been more successful at selling the working class the idea that they
should live in a "dog-eat-dog" society, where the ultra-wealthy benefit
from their blood and sweat, and maybe, just maybe, the average Joe might
become one of the ultra-wealthy himself. It's just like gambling: though
the odds are vastly against you, the occasional reward is enough to keep
people "hooked".
--
MarkA
Keeper of Things Put There Only Just The Night Before
About eight o'clock
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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