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For all the rolling on the floor you do, how do you type?
Between laughs. Hard concept for you to grasp I see.
I actually used to be a Conservative before I grew up. Actually true, when I was 13, 14 I thought Reagan was the most wonderful thing ever.
ROTFLOL... at 13 I was memorizing NHL stats, and working on puck control.
Then I was a liberal for a while, but that didn't work either.
Seems you switched flavors without much thinking. BTW... Libs policy, socialist policy... it never works over the long haul. Shame you haven't figured that one out.
What's funny about you and Conservative is that you guys don't realize that you're still drinking Kool-Aid, you just switched to a different flavor.
My evolution to becoming a Conservative took years... which means for a while I did embrace some aspects of socialism. These fell too, as a lot of reading and even more travel around the world revealed the flaws of what I believed. I not only read about how these systems fail, but saw the failures first hand, and met with and spoke with a lot of people that ran businesses. So, the conversion was slow, coupled with theory and real life experiences. Nobody has shown why I should turn back, and today the failures of socialism are more evident than ever.
You see... I agree with folks like former socialist von Mises who learned his lesson about the failure of socialism through researching the housing problem in Vienna. Hayek, Friedman, Hobbes, Smith... and there isn't anything that has shown me that injecting socialist poison from far away capitals by a few wise guys is the solution to the greatest good for the greatest number.
You may think Marx has a place in providing the greatest good for the greatest number. I don't.
It's like watching someone argue that they won't get cancer because they switched to Marlboro Lights instead of Camels!
Just look at the destruction socialist policy has wrought about the world, and what the solution is and has been. Perhaps a little poison... or antigen assists humans build defenses or tolerance against said poison or pathogen, but poisoning Liberty doesn't achieve anything other than destruction of Liberty and the good it brings.
Shame you haven't figured that out either.
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You haven't shown how poisoning Liberty is the model for success. Prove it... there is a world of examples. Perhaps the EU, or India's rise, or China's growth from a retarded Commi society, perhaps Kanuckistan can show us how socialist medical is the answer. Perhpas you can explain how government forcing banks to make bad loans is forward thinking. Perhpas YOU can explain how government mandated Ponzi/Madoff schemes have benefited America, Germany, Finland, Greece... take your pick, there's tons of examples.
You flap your gums, throw out your standard intellectually lazy lines... proclaim to be a centrist and above it all, use deception in an attempt to shut down arguments. Where is all this socialist success you embrace? After all, you claim the right is wrong, the left is wrong... show me where socialist doctrine succeeds, for you embrace some forms of socialist doctrine. If not, are you proclaiming to be a Conservative now? ROTFLOL... And please show me where Conservatism... embracing Liberty, natural law, our God Given Rights... Capitalism fails to provide the greatest good for the greatest number.
C'mon dude... J'us du ette.
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