OK, I admit I've been a socialist basher most of my life... [:I]
Every chance I get, I speak out against the many socialist incursions---in o' so many forms--into our daily lives.
There is no such thing as benign socialism, and if Americans en masse don't wake up to it soon, they shall one day drown in it as a nation.
KBaker, I put in for my copy. Please be sure to include the author's name to give due credit.
Appreciate the effort you are putting forward.
Mr. Jewbroni, sir,
I would admonish you to do "your homework" and freshen-up on history. There you will find a plethora of case examples where the altruistic "ideals" espoused by "true" and purist socialists have wreaked so much death and misery upon this small world we have.
I grant you this, where it was not by direct result (pure & clean ideals), then it was by grand scheme of deceit perpetrated on the ignorant masses. Socialism can easily work a two-pronged attack upon societies, and this is what makes it so pervasive. In all cases, the results are similar: tragic.
Care to rewrite history??
Furthermore,
NaZi = National Socialism
Yes, I sure do equate them in all their forms.
As they say, "Same sh!t, different pile..."
I like to think of fascism as socialism's big, mean brother. He's very impulsive, has a tendency to be reckless and has little patience to run the program smoothly and g-r-a-d-u-a-l-l-y. He knows nothing of "eeeeasy does it"!
*****If we cannot judge the ideal by the result, then how can the ideal ever be worthy of being considered??*****
Yes, socialism in my household IS a dirty word.