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View Poll Results: Which society would you rather live in?
Maoist China, Stalinist USSR, Cold-War Eastern Europe, North Korea like society (left) 6 37.50%
Francoist Spain, Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Fascist Italy (right) 10 62.50%
Voters: 16. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-03-2013, 06:23 AM
 
Location: A great city, by a Great Lake!
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I'll pass on either.
Individual freedom, sounds much better than the 2 versions of selective freedom, for only a few.
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Neither, and I would dispute your right/left labels. However, the terms have become meaningless.

I would have to agree with both of you. Both options suck, have expansive government, and the restriction of individual freedoms. Unless of course you're one of the elite.
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Old 04-03-2013, 06:26 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Neither! Both of these extremes are tyrannies that protect the few and threaten the many.

I would prefer to live in a society that respected individual freedom such as unrestricted firearms ownership as well as prevented corporate business distortions of the Fee Market such as petroleum cartels, farm supports and bank monopolies among other things.
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Old 04-03-2013, 06:29 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Neither, and I would dispute your right/left labels. However, the terms have become meaningless.


Right or left, is up to the individual, not the party.
Many have been educated to think it is all about the party.
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Old 04-03-2013, 06:42 AM
 
Location: One of the 13 original colonies.
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Neither.
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Old 04-03-2013, 06:45 AM
 
Location: texas
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Thats like asking, which would you rather have brain or lung cancer...

I would like to have neither...
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Old 04-03-2013, 10:57 AM
 
Location: My beloved Bluegrass
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That's the problem with extremes, anyone not willing to walk the party line ends up getting hurt. As much as people complain about this country, including the people who idiotically claim this worst place to live on earth, we are fortunate in that the rights we have, such as freedom of the press, have stopped this from happening to here. Every time I moan about the results of some election, I try to keep that in mind. It is also why I get so frustrated when the press doesn't actually do its job, and instead acts like a bunch of cheerleaders.
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Old 04-03-2013, 11:32 AM
 
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I think your listing is off. The left want more central control of means of production and the fruits of that production.Lok at the Nazi's they wanted not only that but what we call politcally correct social controls over thoguht. They also suporessed Christianity< like the elft they also saw the Jews as evil much as left sees israel in supporting the Palestianians who supported the Niazis.
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