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It’s time to give socialism a try
Washington Post ^
| March 6, 2018
| Elizabeth Bruenig
Posted on 03/07/2018 11:31:22 AM PST by C19fan
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To: rktman
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posted on
03/07/2018 11:46:26 AM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: C19fan
This empty, vacant piece does not even manage to express a coherent reason WHY we should try Socialism.
To: C19fan
Ummmmmmmmm. Didn’t Hitler try socialism too?
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posted on
03/07/2018 11:51:00 AM PST
by
Gumdrop
To: C19fan
I think it is time to give free markets a try!
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posted on
03/07/2018 11:54:24 AM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: C19fan
reducing the vast inequality Well, she has a point. Socialism is very effective at introducing nation-wide poverty, which is the epitome of "equality."
To: C19fan
You had it for most of eight years and only diminished the economy and stepped upon freedoms. Relocate to a socialist paradise if you don’t like it here!
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posted on
03/07/2018 11:54:31 AM PST
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: C19fan
No clicks for the ComPost.
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posted on
03/07/2018 11:55:18 AM PST
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: C19fan
I can only assume the title is sarcasm (I didn’t read the article because I’m not really into satire and if the title is not sarcasm it’s too stupid to bother wasting my time on.)
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posted on
03/07/2018 11:56:49 AM PST
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: C19fan
“Democratic Socialism”, I like that! An oxymoron if I have ever heard of one. Does that mean that when it all fails disastrously, we all get to vote out the idiots who fooled us into swallowing their lies? Based on the Stalinist track record of even the immediate past, that would probably be a “no”. Socialism always will decline and degenerate into chaos and violence. At least we have that to look forward to.
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posted on
03/07/2018 11:58:24 AM PST
by
Richard Axtell
(So, this is the Third World! What happened to the first two?)
To: C19fan
Not to be confused for a totalitarian nostalgist, I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic and aimed primarily at decommodifying labor, reducing the vast inequality brought about by capitalism, and breaking capitals stranglehold over politics and culture.,
Just came across this quote by Ayn Rand last week that just so perfectly describes things and fits perfectly for this situation:
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialismby vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."
(Source: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/socialism.html)
To: C19fan
Wow! That money statement mirrors the stated goals of Mussolini’s fascist movement in Italy.
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:03:28 PM PST
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: C19fan
We have a ‘mixed economy’ with market base activity supporting the redistribution of wealth. The current Socialists (wearing TShirts reading ‘For the People/ By the People’) do not realize once People Who Work for a Living get tired of supporting People Who Vote for a Living, it’s the end.
(See Venezuela)
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:04:04 PM PST
by
griswold3
(Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.)
To: Rebelbase
That should read the modern face of fascism.
Her reasoning is the same as was used by Mussolini and his Italian fascist movement.
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:04:34 PM PST
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: C19fan
Capitalism is the worst economic system in the world - except for all the others.
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:07:27 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: C19fan
She can’t even right but she’s going to change the world.
To: RJS1950
Yes. Almost exactly the same.
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:08:00 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
To: C19fan
Do these people read any history? Do they not know the factual death toll of socialism/communism in the 20th century? Do they really not know about the incomprehensible suffering in the Gulags? Have they read any Solzhenitsyn? Talk about brainwashed. I'm afraid we're going to have to keep plugging away trying to educate the Millennial and others of all ages. Socialism is cool. Yeah, right. Read a book for a change.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?" - Thomas Sowell
"A nation of well informed men, who have been taught to know and to prize the rights that God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." - Benjamin Franklin
"Failed socialism does not result in reform but in more socialism." FReeper nathanbedford
"Income redistribution in any form is an outrage and violation of Natural Law." - FReeper Jacquerie
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:08:07 PM PST
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
To: C19fan
If you want to try communism, be my guest. Move to Russia, China or to our neighbors in Havana and Venezuela and tell me how that works out for you. That would be a “stranglehold” like you have never seen! Stupid Millennial for sure!
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:09:49 PM PST
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: Gumdrop
We could do it with a distinctly America first flavor, let’s call it National Socialism!
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:10:22 PM PST
by
null and void
("If you see something say something." "If we say something *DO* something!!!")
To: RJS1950
This young woman advocates a state taeover at a time when the Chinese are trying to shrink their state-owned sector.
I’m not an apologist for President Xi but he understands reality far better than this young woman does.
Its not possible for the state to run everything - not if it wants to give people freedom of choice and a higher quality of life.
Those things can only be delivered by the market.
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posted on
03/07/2018 12:11:23 PM PST
by
goldstategop
((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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