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September 8th, 2017, 11:57 PM | #111 |
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@xyzde69: If you think that government should have the right to ban junk food (including the Pringles Loud Queso that I just ate about 20-30 crisps' worth of...) do you similarly think that government should ban drugs and alcohol? The Soviet Union had an anti-alcohol campaign and its own "war on drugs" versus narcotics and the opium/heroin that originated in their part of the world. But I guess Cuban communism was different, because it allowed the leaders to smoke cigars... )
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September 9th, 2017, 09:15 AM | #112 | |
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And technological innovation is always stirring the pot. Who would have imagined 100 years ago that there would be a company worth tens of billions of dollars due to something called "software" that is just tiny little 1s and 0s inscribed onto a magnetic disk? Or that it would be possible to generate massive amounts of electricity from the fires of creation itself through the artful use of an element called uranium? Not that there isn't truth in what you say. Big capital has the upper hand at the moment, and more political access then they should. The pendulum is swinging back towards the "Gilded Age", but someday it will begin swinging back the other way.
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I'm not in my ethics commitee.
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I'm not the despot that bowlinggreen and Brian249x are trying to paint to discredit an improved Communism that will take care of the widow and the orphan. The number of 46 millions people living under the line of poverty in your country is a number that clearly demonstrates that Liberalism is crap and unfair. I don't hope that anybody of you will one day increase the number of these people. But in your Liberalism, you could be one day let on the sidewalk. Look at your Lehman's Brothers and subprimes catastrophy in 2008. Never it would have happened in a real Communism. Quote:
Look at your subprimes stories in 2008. Houses sold 400 $ in Detroit because of the avidity of bankers. Working people threw out of "their" rented houses. You defend Liberalism because you are lucky to be born on the nice way of the line. Quote:
But if I was fanatical, I'd not propose an improved option of the Communism with an ethics commitee and an exam to select each candidate who would be members of the commitees I proposed. Now look at the "predigree" of your actual President. 1) He had several cases that proved he employed and badly treated "illegal" immigrants. 2) He get 3 millions less voters 3) He never published his tax declaration to the population. Are Americans so blind to believe in this kind of clown who is the real symbol of Liberalism? Do you really live in a real Democracy managed by fair people? Last edited by Roubignol; September 9th, 2017 at 10:05 AM.. |
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The question becomes what event will we have to go through for that pendulum to swing and how catastrophic will it be?
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September 9th, 2017, 06:43 PM | #115 |
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I'm not sure what sort of event it will take for the pendulum to swing back the other way, but I expect it will be catastrophic. Maybe a huge economic meltdown, greater then the Great Depression. It took a Roosevelt and the will of a mass of disenfranchised people to start back on the road to recovery from that disaster. And before you say, "well, let's do something about it now, before its too late!", I'll just point out that the great mass of voters in our democracy don't think that way. As long as they are relatively comfy, they aren't going to do anything. Thus, the need for disaster. It would be nice if the common man was an intelligent and rational political animal, and capable of choosing wisely when it comes to government, but he is not.
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I am currently reevaluating my political philosophy, but agree with you on many points. It makes much sense have a limited number of informed and intelligent voters select political leaders. For one thing, we find that a great number of eligible voters refuse to participate in the process. A second problem is that modern advertising techniques have been used to lure unsophisticated voters into supporting irrational measures. Most problematic is the fact that many countries are not run for the maximum benefit of the country as a whole, but rather to increase the wealth of a small cadre to the detriment of the vast majority. It may surprise you to learn that the writings of Karl Marx influenced my politics for a long time. Unfortunately, Stalin, Mao, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, et al have cast Marx in a bad light. Donald Trump is doing the same for Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Adam Smith, etc. As previously noted, human beings struggle in governing larger groups in a humane and just manner. More importantly, human beings seem to have drastically failed in matching the size of their population to available resources and are rapidly discovering that the planet itself has mechanisms to deal with species that fail that test. As the saying goes, "Communism is like Christianity. We don't know if either one can work because nobody has really tried them yet." |
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Mass consumerism and rabid capitalism are completely unsustainable and they have had a nasty and pernicious effect on society in large skewing it's moral and humanitarian compass. |
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Don't get me wrong, I am not some sort of pro-capitalist, and I understand very well how the system is and has been gradually going wrong. But what exactly do you propose to do about it? You can't really do ANYTHING about it. xyz thinks you can, but every time somebody has articulated his sort of ideological system and enforced its tenets upon a given society with the inevitable violence, it has in the end failed. This incarnation of civilization may well fall too, given that it is unsustainable, as you say. What will replace it, well, who knows? Maybe this time, nothing will.
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I'd refer to the final decision of the ethics commitee runned by selected scientists of very high intellectual level, who would take care of the best for the human mankind.
Of course, and who would select these people and more important ensure that they take care of the best for mankind? |
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