Strontium Dog wrote:I don't want respect. I've never demanded it. All I ask is that folk stop flinging mud at me without at least attempting to justify it with evidence and rational argument.
So far as I can see, my biggest "crime" has been to provide qualified limited support for a government that aimed to reduce the deficit and the size of the state. This obviously makes me evil incarnate in the eyes of some.
Well, yeah, of course. It makes you the arch-enemy of all Marxist socialists and progressives because an overwhelming, all-encompassing, all-powerful state is their ultimate goal in life and ideology. I'd have thought you'd have figured that out by now.
And they have no evidence with which to support their stupid political and social ideology and they know it, which is why all those socialist monkeys can do is to fling poo at the glass.
I have yet to see a single socialist actually address any of the many points of failure I've brought up with respect to socialism with any sort of rigor or thought. The closest anyone comes is when they try to excuse the failings of socialism by using capitalism as their argument, as in the case where they point to some socialist country like Sweden, which provides lots of goodies from the public treasury to its residents, as a socialist success. It ain't.
If Sweden actually abided by its Marxist/socialist principles its people would be as poor as those of rural Russia or Cuba, or Venezuela. You see, Sweden's socialist system relies for it's OPM on the existence of a much larger and wealthier capitalist economy to which they can sell their abundant natural resources at a profit. In doing so, Sweden has become what Marx called for the destruction of; it has become the bourgeoisie merchant class that uses capitalism to fund Marxism. This is the "mixed economy" crap that is used as an excuse for justifying socialism.
But it still only works if two things are present: Natural resources that can be exploited (usually by slave labor) and a capitalist economy to sell them to. When one or the other is missing, there's nothing with which to fund the welfare state.
That's why Communist Cuba and Venezuela are in ruins and their people are hungry and have dirty asses. Capitalism turned its back on both after the Communists seized their property and "nationalized" it without compensating them for the theft. And without capitalists who are willing to invest their capital in those countries, even the basic necessities of life are in short supply. And even as we speak, Obama is sucking Castro's cock and Castro is petting him on his head promising that no, Cuba will never seize capitalist investment assets in Cuba again if only President Slurper will lift the embargo, which he's doing...and which I sincerely hope will be re-imposed ten seconds after Obama leaves office.
So, "democratic socialism" is actually neither democratic nor socialist, it's just kleptocratic capitalism that will quickly die when capitalist OPM is withdrawn.
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Is anybody surprised that SD has not commented on the matter of his signature since?
