A little less ranting about “Dems” and a little more thoughtful exposition of your ideas and you might actually find that people are interested in hearing what you have to say.
I didn’t say it did.JonNC:
Yes, yes, we all know that.
Doesn’t mean that the humanities are worthless, or that we don’t need historians. As well as poets and artists and art historians and philosophers.
Do we? The Democratic Party seems on an express train toward it being in their platform. Perez calls Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez the future of the party.
I am a firm believer in free speech. Having pictures of those two murderous thugs or what they believed is an important reminder of what people like Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez, Sanders, and Gillum want for America, not the murderous oppression (those socialism inevitably has to be authoritarian), but the economic catastrophe it always brings.
Oh, please. You really think that Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (I have no idea who you mean by Gollum - is this some Lord of the Rings reference?) want American to become what Cuba or Venezuela are today?
It was a mistype of Gillum. I’ve corrected it.
By definition, socialism does not provide prosperity. By history, socialist states tend to be more violent and less peaceful. As for security, the greatest security comes from individual liberty, limited government, and free market capitalism.
Is it something you can PM to me that I can post without those thugs being able to trace it?
…in some places. In other places, not so much.Inisfallen:
It was a mistype of Gillum. I’ve corrected it.
If they really want socialism, what else am I to believe? This is what socialism brings.
How does Trump get to be an expert on what is “faithful” socialism? How would you like a Muslim telling you what it means to be a “faithful” Catholic?
…claiming something “by definition” that is not in the definition.
Prove it. The general tendancy, that is, and not by citing examples, because we can cite examples pro and con until the cows come home.
Economic security? It is a toss-up.
They call themselves socialist. If only there was a writer who wrote a text regarded as widely influential among leftists in which he laid out 10 key points for socialism. Then you could compare the points and try to make your case that Venezuela is not really socialist.
Oh, I quite agree that Venezuela is socialist. And so is Norway. Venezuela has a failing economy. Norway does not.LeafByNiggle:
They call themselves socialist… Then you could compare the points and try to make your case that Venezuela is not really socialist.
Why would any responsible Catholic or principled anyone want to have their tax dollars go to fund essentially post-modernist institutions, run by overpaid leftist administrators and instructed by teaching faculties that are made up of 90% socialist or progressivist atheists and agnostics where the mere mention of God, binary genders, conservative principles, morality, Christianity, the benefits of western civilization, or the existence of truth and reason could very likely get you failed, or much worse?
The only reason Norway does not have a failing economy is that the people there are smart enough to keep their economy a market based capitalist one.starshiptrooper:
Oh, I quite agree that Venezuela is socialist. And so is Norway. Venezuela has a failing economy. Norway does not.LeafByNiggle:
They call themselves socialist… Then you could compare the points and try to make your case that Venezuela is not really socialist.
To be fair, it has never been allowed to benefit the whole nation, has it?Jeanne_S:
You missed the point. Where has a private school system benefitted the whole nation, not just the few who are fortunate enough to have access to it? That has not happened here because very few do have access to free private schooling.
Like Canada’s Mr Trudeau, who is young, and likely won’t grow up before the country is in receivership. That will probably only take one term (and not two) in the House (of Parliament.)
My ‘original claim’ as you quoted it was neither original nor a claim. It was a question asking for your response and it was included in a set of several other questions in response to your statement about blacks voting for the Democrats. You didn’t engage with those questions but ran to the politically correct cowardice of trying to see the other as racist. exactly the same way that certain talking heads on CNN cowardly tried to make the discussion of this thread about Republican racism. This is what you guys do and it ridiculously insane and predictable.