TheRealMafoo said:
This is just a general thought I had on socialism, so I thought I would share.
Here is an interesting exercise. Draw a line, like a timeline, and on the far left, put "extreme socialism", and on the far right, put "extreme capitalism". This line is to represent the form of government of a country at a time, not the leader.
Now, take every leader of a major country over the last 200 years, and put them somewhere on that line. To the far right, you would have all our early presidents, with the newer ones moving slightly to the left, as the US over the last 100 years had gotten a lot more socialistic (this would put Obama somewhere in the mid right side of the graph). Following this would be the UK, and probably Australia in there somewhere.
On the far left, you would have Old Russia, Cuba, Old China, then as you move to the center, you would see WWII Germany, New China, North Korea... and as you got to the center, you would see most of the countries of modern europe.
Once you have all the world leaders on that graph, look at where all the ones who impacted the world the most in a negative way, and see where they are.
Stalin, Linen, Hitler... They are all on the far left of that graph.
But here is the thing. Many more leaders on that list might have been as bad if given the opportunity. Some might say Bush Jr, but he could not of killed millions of people, because he was bound to a government that didn't give him the power to do so. Some same the same about Obama.
The thing is, both of those leaders live in a country where they don't have the capability to do massive amounts of harm to there people. And I say, why in the hell would you ever give them the opportunity?
The US has moved down that line towards the left slowly over the last 100 years or so. Under this administration, we are accelerating down that line at an alarming rate. Once we cross it, we move into territory where leaders have tremendous control over our lives.
Someone we don't even know yet will be leading us in 10 years. Do you want that person to have complete control over your life? I sure don't.
There WILL be another Stalin and another Hitler in the world. In fact, there have been thousands of them already. The only difference between those two men and the thousands that have come after them, is a system of government that forbids the kinds of actions these men took.
Those two guys had to fight and murder for there power. Today, in America, we are just giving it away.
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