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2007-11-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

"Am I the only DUer who sees socialism as the only viable future?"

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-16 06:50|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I like this one best:

In order to have socialism in America, the system has to crash and burn and be rebuilt. Beyond the great Depression and the New Deal. It calls for an entire restructuring of how things work in this country.

OR, you could just go live somewhere else. Their montra is 'I'm not winning, so I'm whining.'

Posted by wxjames 2007-11-16 08:27|| 2007-11-16 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 100 million dead in the 20th century and historians are still doing the accounting. You know if you pause for a moment and 'think', it may imply that there is something fundamentally flawed with the concept. However, there are quaint eccentric people who still believe in reviving monarchies and slavery too, none of whom get tenured chairs at "institutions of higher learning".

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-16 08:44|| 2007-11-16 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Tickets get your tickets, north korea is modern socialism in action, it has need,s which all the modern socialists thinkers here should lend immediate support, rally round one of thier own. Why not introduce legislation to export our socialist talent to help those of like mind? Free tickets and extended visas, 20 years should do it, i'd consider it as a humanitarian effort to augment our state departments previous attempts to augment the north.

There is obviously a talent gap in north korea, where all the high bandwidth, US socialists could step in to fill. This action and the results of their applied industry, could be the true test case for determining fitness to contribute solutions elsewhere in the world. Test and verify, north Korea would seem like a paradise, its foundation is set, let the geniuses go in and move it forward.......

others like china, found solutions elsewhere, but that is just them. lets empty our universities, and allow all of our geniuses to apply their talents to purpose.

Posted by Spiny Gl 2511 2007-11-16 08:52|| 2007-11-16 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 There is obviously a talent gap in north korea, where all the high bandwidth, US socialists could step in to fill.

Great point, Spiny GI. These DUers should offer the DPRK their experience in womyn's studies, interpretive dance and street protest puppetry. Sadly, even these skill sets might increase the DPRK's productivity.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-11-16 10:03|| 2007-11-16 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Should be mandatory. If it doesn't work out, the NorKs will have a new well fed food source.

Posted by ed 2007-11-16 10:12|| 2007-11-16 10:12|| Front Page Top

#6 If he thinks he's the only DUer who sees socialism as the only viable future, then he either has some kind of attention defeceit thing or he's a friggin moron...

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-16 10:18|| 2007-11-16 10:18|| Front Page Top

#7 DUer sees socialism as "the only viable alternative."
Sun rises in east.
Water flows downhill.
Dogs bark.
Salmon swin upstream to spawn.
The physical universe has three dimensions.

I could go on, but I think the point is made.

Posted by Mike 2007-11-16 12:42|| 2007-11-16 12:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Socialism has so far failed miserably every time it has been attempted. What Socialism really needs is purity. The good socialists in the US should move to Europe (Sweden perhaps) and the nasty capitalists in the chosen nation should come to the USA. Lets give socialism and capitalism a real chance without the stab-in the back nonsense we've seen all the time.

Come on socialist, make it work, vote with your feet. Prove the capitalists wrong. Besides, Sweden is peaceful and the babes are hot. Move.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-11-16 13:44|| 2007-11-16 13:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, but Sweden's cold.

Much better to hie off to Cuba. Warm beaches, soft sand, hard currency gets smokin' deals.....Hollyweird types drop in from time to time.....

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-11-16 17:27|| 2007-11-16 17:27|| Front Page Top

#10 "System has to crash, burn, and be rebuilt" > Mainstream Amers "choice" is between UNILATERAL = VOLUNTARY US SURRENDER-APPEASEMENT, versus
"WAR IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED" anti-US War + Mutual Destruction, ala Russia-China etc. and Year 2015-2020??? The good news is that PLanet X will start showing itself come 2009, and a large comet will knock the earth of its orbit after 2012, 2012 "Global Quake" or "Quake heard/felt 'round the World", to save the Earth from our Sun, Moon and 2030, ......@etal. IFF SWEDEN WANTS TO DEVOLVE FROM HOT BIKINI BABES TO A GLORIFIED WENDY'S "VERY NICE" COLD WAR COMMERCIAL, WHO ARE AMERS TO STOP THE SWEDES???
D *** NGED PICARD/NEXUS, WHERES A SUN-DESTROYING MISSLE WHEN YOU WANT ONE???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-16 18:43|| 2007-11-16 18:43|| Front Page Top

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