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View Poll Results: Do Republicans understand the definition "Communism", or "Socialism" ???
They are totally clueless 42 48.28%
They know but just use it as inflammatory rhetoric 21 24.14%
Not sure 2 2.30%
Whatever Beck says is the truth 22 25.29%
Voters: 87. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-18-2010, 08:32 AM
 
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Isn't it possible for a politician to use the tools available to him, such as greedy bankers or financial investors, if the end result he has in mind is Marxist, or neo-Marxist?
No.
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Old 05-18-2010, 08:44 AM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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No.
No? LOL We are seeing it in action.
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Old 05-18-2010, 09:06 AM
 
Location: USA - midwest
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Default Do Republicans understand the definition "Communism", or "Socialism" ???

What they THINK they "understand" is whatever Limbaugh told them to think today.
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Old 05-18-2010, 10:26 AM
 
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No? LOL We are seeing it in action.
Such as?

Let's not confuse welfare capitalism with socialism shall we.

Socialist do not prop-up failing capitalist financial institutions, they nationalize them.
(See China Investment Corporation).

Socialist do not devise national health care plans which are based upon private insurance companies and private healthcare providers, they nationalize both.
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Old 08-09-2011, 03:12 PM
 
Location: Fairfax County, VA
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Everyone with a (D) after their name, is labeled Socialist. It's used as the great boogeyman of the election season.
inflammatory rhetoric, it is!
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Old 08-09-2011, 06:53 PM
 
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It gets thrown around here all the time and frankly it's embarrassing. Do they not know or understand the definitions? Or is this just cheap hyperbole?
I don't know, do liberals understand the definition of communism or socialism? Often, the ones who are the accusers are often the guilty. Maybe you should ask the question of yourself instead of worrying about what others are saying.
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Old 08-09-2011, 08:50 PM
 
Location: Indiana
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Such as?

Let's not confuse welfare capitalism with socialism shall we.

Socialist do not prop-up failing capitalist financial institutions, they nationalize them.
(See China Investment Corporation).

Socialist do not devise national health care plans which are based upon private insurance companies and private healthcare providers, they nationalize both.
ITS NOT THAT THEY DONT WANT TO TAKE OVER THESE INSTITUTIONS, THEY ARE NOT ALOWED TO, YET. BUT THEY ARE WORKING ON IT. VERY GENTLY AS TO NOT SPOOK THE aMERICANS. BUT SOCIALISM IS THEIR GOAL!!!
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Old 08-09-2011, 09:07 PM
 
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ITS NOT THAT THEY DONT WANT TO TAKE OVER THESE INSTITUTIONS, THEY ARE NOT ALOWED TO, YET. BUT THEY ARE WORKING ON IT. VERY GENTLY AS TO NOT SPOOK THE aMERICANS. BUT SOCIALISM IS THEIR GOAL!!!
Republicans, thankfully, are not oblivious to intent, which renders these definitions to the realm of silly semantic arguments.
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Old 08-09-2011, 09:20 PM
 
Location: Indiana
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republicans, thankfully, are not oblivious to intent, which renders these definitions to the realm of silly semantic arguments.
great arguement, not silly at all, make so much sense!!!!not!!!
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Old 08-10-2011, 08:15 AM
 
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I think it's funny that all the people here that have been indoctrinated into these ideas through there schools think they actually know what they really are. Wake up people, an evil ideology will NEVER tell you their true intentions. You've been lied to to make you believe that these systems are a good thing. They have succeeded in stomping out any history from your minds. Look back all through history and show me one single instance where Socialism or Communism didn't end up oppressing their people and millions died from either slaughter or starvation.
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