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Yes, because Socialism always works so well
Marketwatch.com ^ | 7-22-15 | Paul Farrell

Posted on 07/22/2015 11:00:28 AM PDT by Calif Conservative

Yes, Pope Francis is encouraging civil disobedience, leading a rebellion. Listen closely, Francis knows he’s inciting political rebellion, an uprising of the masses against the world’s superrich capitalists. And yet, right-wing conservatives remain in denial, tuning out the pope’s message, hoping he’ll just go away like the “Occupy Wall Street” movement did.

Never. America’s narcissistic addiction to presidential politics is dumbing down our collective brain. Warning: Forget Bernie vs. Hillary. Forget the circus-clown-car distractions created by Trump vs. the GOP’s Fab 15. Pope Francis is the only real political leader that matters this year. Forget the rest. Here’s why:

Pope Francis is not just leading a “Second American Revolution,” he is rallying people across the Earth, middle class as well as poor, inciting billions to rise up in a global economic revolution, one that could suddenly sweep the planet, like the 1789 French storming the Bastille.

Unfortunately, conservative capitalists — Big Oil, Koch billionaires, our GOP Congress and all fossil-fuel climate-science deniers — are blind to the fact their ideology is on the wrong side of history, that by fighting a no-win battle they are committing suicide, self-destructing their own ideology.

The fact is: The era of capitalism is rapidly dying, a victim of its own success, sabotaged by greed and a loss of a moral code. In 1776 Adam Smith’s capitalism became America’s core economic principle. We enshrined his ideal of capitalism in our constitutional freedoms. We prospered. America became the greatest economic superpower in world history.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: conservatism; economy; religion; socialism
A screed by Marxist loving Paul Farrell of left-wing financial site Marketwatch, trying to convince us -- yet again -- about the joys and wonders and successes of socialism
1 posted on 07/22/2015 11:00:28 AM PDT by Calif Conservative
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To: Calif Conservative

He may very well instigate some Communist uprisings around the globe but not here.

He simply does not have that large of a devoted U.S. following. We may very well go Communist but he will have little to do with it.

Now...Latin America, Africa? That’s a different matter.


2 posted on 07/22/2015 11:02:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Calif Conservative
Well, if that vile, dystopian, revolting revolution takes place it will be even worse that the disastrous French Revolution
3 posted on 07/22/2015 11:03:12 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Calif Conservative

Clearly, Farrell never in his life visited a communist country and knows absolutely nothing about the subject under discussion.

If he really believes this crap, then he’s an idiot.


4 posted on 07/22/2015 11:05:48 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Calif Conservative

Shouldn’t this article require a barf alert?


5 posted on 07/22/2015 11:10:32 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Calif Conservative

All the ‘progressives’ and other socialists pine for feudalism. It’s funny.
The Holy Roman Empire is the author’s model, though he is too stupid to realize it.

An Inquisition for “climate change” deniers -that’s a good thing LOL!


6 posted on 07/22/2015 11:22:18 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Calif Conservative

Thanks comrade for posting. We need to spread the news.


7 posted on 07/22/2015 11:22:43 AM PDT by cornelis
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To: Calif Conservative
Socialism is based on how many of the "Deadly Sins"?
Let us count the ways.
Greed.
Envy.
Sloth.
Gluttony.
Lust.
And lets throw in Pride and Wrath just to round out the field.
8 posted on 07/22/2015 11:25:22 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: Falcon4.0

You say that like those are bad things...


9 posted on 07/22/2015 11:26:52 AM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

We may go Communist, but only after lots of ditches are brim full of bodies.


10 posted on 07/22/2015 11:28:58 AM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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To: Calif Conservative

Frankie is an imbecile. Most of the world will pay him any heed.


11 posted on 07/22/2015 11:32:14 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: jonascord

During the French Revolution, there was a discussion of how many people would have be executed to have enough to distribute to the rest. Likewise, American radicals discussed how much of the population would be incorrigible and would have to be disposed of in “re-education camps.”

You can be certain that mass graves are, in fact, part of the plan.


12 posted on 07/22/2015 11:38:25 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Little Ray

Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn admitted as much to an FBI informant.


13 posted on 07/22/2015 11:47:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Little Ray
"You can be certain that mass graves are, in fact, part of the plan."

Then we will make every effort to insure that the correct bodies go into the holes.

The technology is on the shelf. Personally, I prefer 100% nitrogen. It's cheaper and quieter.

We will have to develop the will. Why should people who ignore and currently want to destroy the Constitution be protected by it?

14 posted on 07/22/2015 11:48:59 AM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted...)
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To: Calif Conservative

Molon Labe Commie!


15 posted on 07/22/2015 1:23:40 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’m Catholic and I suspect I’m one of thousands who want nothing to do with the church until THIS GUY is gone. He should be careful about his call for revolution in America...he’ll get one, but it won’t be what he was wishing for.


16 posted on 07/22/2015 1:23:46 PM PDT by travlnmn41
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