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2010-06-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

Is liberal socialist democracy evil or incompetent, or just plain wrong?

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Posted by Mike 2010-06-22 11:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Worse, it's suicide.

Posted by ed 2010-06-22 11:44|| 2010-06-22 11:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Fall of Paris to the Germans to Fred and other editors.

He bought us wine, held up his glass, and proposed a toast: "To the liberation of the bourgeois capital by the people's forces of socialism."

Note that before history was rewritten, the Nazis were socialists.

Posted by phil_b 2010-06-22 11:46|| 2010-06-22 11:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Good intentions... my a$$. Road to hell is paved with good intentions and greased by banality of evil. Socialism (Liberal, which is quite illiberal, or not so Liberal) is not wrongheaded. It is evil. 100 million souls are witness to that.

Posted by twobyfour 2010-06-22 12:01|| 2010-06-22 12:01|| Front Page Top

#4 What's at stake are the very principles of this nation. Surely that's clear enough?

True enough, but not clear to most thanks to the last five decades of public education (socialist indoctrination). No one who can do so effectively is going to make this case explicitly. And if they did, the media (shocktroopers of socialism) would immediately do everything possible to make the person tappear to be a right wing wacko nut job.

Posted by Glons Peacock4612 2010-06-22 12:46|| 2010-06-22 12:46|| Front Page Top

#5 "Note that before history was rewritten, the Nazis were socialists"

NSDAP - National socialist german workers party.
Businesses operated, but big ones were under central control. Labor unions were under direct control.

Like fascism, lighter handed than communism, but very socialist.

Posted by flash91 2010-06-22 12:52|| 2010-06-22 12:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Is liberal socialist democracy evil or incompetent, or just plain wrong?

Yes.

Posted by gorb 2010-06-22 13:15|| 2010-06-22 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 No one who can do so effectively is going to make this case explicitly. Jerry's not a politician, but he does a pretty good job.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-22 14:23|| 2010-06-22 14:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Clearly I believe that those who voted in this government were mistaken. I want those people back on our side. How to make that happen is the task before us.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-22 14:24|| 2010-06-22 14:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Is liberal socialist democracy evil or incompetent, or just plain wrong?

Is this a trick question?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-06-22 17:59|| 2010-06-22 17:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Is this a trick question?

It's a false dichotomy (or trichotomy as there are 3 choices). Socialism is evil, incompetent and plain wrong.

Posted by phil_b 2010-06-22 18:19|| 2010-06-22 18:19|| Front Page Top

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