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Spin Zone / Re: OK, we can shut down the Republican Primary race now
« on: February 03, 2016, 04:53:07 AM »Keep thinking like that and it's off to Room 101 for you...
I don't think so. I have guns.
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Keep thinking like that and it's off to Room 101 for you...
The plain truth is that Trump would make an abysmal president.
This is why the Democrats have enjoyed so much support since the times of FDR. There are tens of millions of Americans that will never have this better than average job that allows them healthcare and retirement. The very tenants of Capitalism are antithetical to high quality living for all. To generate the highest possible profit from your capital investment. That means paying your workers the least you can get away with. This is why socialism even exists. If capitalism worked fantastically for everyone in society, there would be no purpose for socialism. This has never been the case anywhere in the world.
To dismiss socialism as just a corrupt ideal is to dismiss billions of people all over the world as hapless morons bound to their fate. For better, or for worse, the 19th and 20th centuries have created the environment for the hapless morons to organize and wield power. Savvy capitalists understand this and provide wages and benefits to their workers so they can keep socialism at bay. You find this most often in privately held companies and corporations. Publicly traded corporations and the stock market is where you see the break down between capital and human being.
Meygen Kelly is a media whore, period. She reminds me of the line in the song "dirty laundry".
The right wants to get rid of government and go back to an old imagined ideal place.
That's not socialism, that's being smart. Socialism is the centralization of an economy and its production. Armies, police and fire by necessity fall under the control of government, that isn't socialism and we won't let you redefine the term to make it seem innocuous. Health care, food production, energy production, manufacturing and pretty much everything else are best left to markets, where the weak producers fall by the wayside and the successful are rewarded. There are example after example of socialist failures throughout history and even in modern times.
Whenever anyone trouts out 'separation of church and state' when speaking about a candidate who is not a muslim that discussion is over for me - it represents such a monumental lack of critical thinking or comprehension of the founding as to be the debate equivalent of jumping the shark - there is simply no point in continuing with someone without a foundation in logic and history.
I literally lose all respect for anyone who does that on whatever subject they do it with.
'Gimp
If you don't think the electorate has had enough of the socialist policies and governing against the will of the people over the past 7 years, then it is you who is not paying attention. The federal government is currently comprised of one ideology disguised as a two-party system, and clearly the electorate has had enough, as manifested by the overwhelming success of the candidates who are believed to be outsiders.
Young = low wing
Old = High wing so your bald spot doesn't get sunburned.