Kasz216 said:
Your like... 50 years behind. Heck even before then. The US has been socialist ever since we stopped having a flat tax (if we ever did have one.) Just less so then most people.
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Indeed, most people are blissfully ignorant of how socialist this country is. I mean we are driven by capitalism, but if you got rid of many of the programs that are flat-out socialist (Social Security anyone or public education?), people would shit a brick.
Americans are professional amnesiacs and great at remembering meaningless slogans, like "tax and spend liberals" and "Big Oil."
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
