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Rath on 08 March 2011
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badgenome said:
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!

The people could not succesfully rebel against the American army as it stands. You're kidding yourself if you think that's a realistic possibility. Gun control just lowers the rate of gun crime/gun suicides.

Also unlike Communism which has never been succesfully implemented (and probably never will) socialism has been implemented to some degree in several of the most democratic, progressive and developed nations in the world. Also some of the nations with the highest free speech rankings.