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Old 03-17-2011, 03:24 PM
 
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It's trying to live off of other people's money (confiscating a ton) and then being directed by the government as to how to spend it and eventually how you should live.

Don't need that, leads to a horrible reduction in the standard of living. Gets dummies as students in public schools as we all notice now.

We want the best and the brightest to go on, not an attempt to create equal outcomes.
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Old 03-17-2011, 03:25 PM
 
Location: Denmark
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Oh no comrades, our secret plan to turn the US into the Democratic People's Republic of America has been exposed by the imperialists
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Old 03-17-2011, 03:25 PM
 
Location: Southern Minnesota
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I just said it's not communism. Just google the term if you are unsure what it means.
Democratic socialism is NOT communism. Not even close. The DSA is not a communist or authoritarian organization. Comparing democratic socialism to communism is like comparing conservatism to fascism.

Question for conservatives: what is socialism?
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Old 03-17-2011, 03:30 PM
 
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Democratic socialism is NOT communism. Not even close. The DSA is not a communist or authoritarian organization. Comparing democratic socialism to communism is like comparing conservatism to fascism.

Question for conservatives: what is socialism?
Please be sure to tell the Communist Party that you know more about what they stand for than they do because even they had to have a Convention to figure out how they differ from the Democrats..

Convention Discussion: What's the difference between the CPUSA and progressive Democrats? » cpusa
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Old 03-17-2011, 03:32 PM
 
Location: Southern Minnesota
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I wasn't talking about the Communist Party, I was talking about the Democratic Socialists of America. They are two different organizations.
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Old 03-17-2011, 03:34 PM
 
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I wasn't talking about the Communist Party, I was talking about the Democratic Socialists of America. They are two different organizations.
Yes they are 2 different organizations, but its pretty darn bad when the Communist Party cant tell the difference between the two..
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Old 03-17-2011, 03:42 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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You can pretty well tick off each of those points in any country in Europe for many decades. Actually, almost all first world countries across the world could fit that list in that same time period (not sure on campaign finance laws in Australia, Japan, Singapore).

You can see how well all of them have been steadily marching towards a communist dictatorship.

Somewhere a grocery store is having a run on tin foil to make more hats.
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Old 03-17-2011, 03:56 PM
 
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So you're a conservative who's a fan of balancing the budget, but not of doing so by raising taxes on those who have benefited the most from the business environment that the US government as cultivated.
Exactly! We need more US jobs shipped overseas.
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Old 03-17-2011, 06:34 PM
 
Location: My little patch of Earth
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Yes they are 2 different organizations, but its pretty darn bad when the Communist Party cant tell the difference between the two..
The differences between the two matter little.

The goal is the same.

The winner will consume the loser in their struggle and then they'll make the move to destroy what's left of the greatest country left on Earth.

IF we let them.....
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Old 03-17-2011, 07:44 PM
 
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It's trying to live off of other people's money (confiscating a ton) and then being directed by the government as to how to spend it and eventually how you should live.

Don't need that, leads to a horrible reduction in the standard of living. Gets dummies as students in public schools as we all notice now.

We want the best and the brightest to go on, not an attempt to create equal outcomes.
"Live off other peoples money," I thought that was the new battle cry of your precious capitalistic friends, you know who they are, GM, AIG, Goldman Sachs, and a ton of others from the sacred halls of Wall Street. Get a clue, you obviously don't see the reverse socialism of the upper class leaching off the taxpayer so they can have their fat bonuses that were handed to them by both parties. wake up..........
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