Obama's "prolonged detention" proposal... Minority Report redux

[badgenome]

Mr Khan said:

badgenome said:

HappySqurriel said:

All that would happen if the United States moved more towards socialism is the corrupt friends of those who are in power would be able to funnel off more under the guise of "helping the poor".

And then we'd have to endure a bunch of squawking about how it only failed because "it wasn't real socialism", just like how communists still insist the Soviet Union wasn't "real communism". Utopian ideologues and their complete inability understand human nature would be a lot more amusing if only they weren't so goddamn destructive.

You have to keep trying, after all. But in this case i meant a more European-style Social Democratic party, something with the actual testicular fortitude to stand behind things like high taxes and gay marriage

And the fortitude to take away people's guns so that they will never, ever, ever have any recourse if they're sick to the teeth of the government stealing their money and lavishing it on favored constituencies? That would be swell. Oh, and maybe some nice, broad speech codes so that net contributors to society will be afraid to even speak out! Yay, socialism!