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Americans aren't even free to vote in half the states. That's not freedom.
How are they not free to vote?
Americans aren't even free to vote in half the states. That's not freedom.
That is how capitalists do it everywhere. Your american government pays farmers to not grow crops. If you do not know even this basic understanding of the capitalist market then you have no business on this thread.
How are they not free to vote?
So Google is YOUR friend.....
Book artful dodger how about you answer the question I asked in my original post? All your assertions them out to not much and as far as it goes all of your aspersions are unfounded and are unappreciated. I’ve made no Aspersions of you just simply ask you to cite law. You are right that in the 60s the courts enforce the law that illuminating discrimination in hiring. I don’t care water in peoples head I only care how it affects me and others. I said the 1950s now I want you decide current law that backs up all of the crap you’ve been spewing
Wrong. I'm one, and I'll bet there are MANY more.
That’s not capitalism.
No you aren't, you just think you are. If you believe in law and order, then you believe in empowering the government to use coercion up to and including lethal violence to force your neighbors to conform to what you think is right. What do you think you would be doing if I decided to enter your house when you weren't home and help myself to your property and you called the police on me?
Everyone wants to use government coercion to force their notion of right and wrong upon everyone else. This is what it means to be a citizen. We all agree that government coercion is the right way to enforce your ideals, we just disagree on which ideals are worth enforcing and which are not worth enforcing.
Of course it is capitalism. Manipulation of supply and demand for profit. A method used throughout every country where capitalist economics are used.
Some of the listener won't earn that much in two lifetimes.Ask any of these people, how much baby formula cost, or pampers, or how much the average person has to spend on blood pressure medicine for a weeks supply, when some people can only by a few pills at a time. They could not tell you what it cost!! But these talking heads can spend all day, telling people how to fight against a government that continually build programs that can assist people in need. Not one of these people will ever take a year salary and dedicate it to helping people, they won't even take a weeks salary ($576,923.00) to help the any one of the same people who tune in and dedicate themselves to his drama carnival spin games.
That is because the democrats usually stand in the way, rerouting those good intentions into Wall Street friendly policies.
Really?
I think you have that backwards.
You REALLY should stop telling me what I believe. You CLEARLY don't know squat about this topic, nor what I "believe".
Sorry. How about this: If you pay your taxes, and if you would call the police on someone who breaks the law and victimizes you, then I know what you believe. If you'd like to go on record saying that you don't pay taxes and wouldn't do this, then I will concede that I don't, in fact, know what you believe.
You just did.
So, no taxes and no police for you? Do you drive on public roads?
Progressivism is simply a desire to improve the human condition through social reform. There is no manifest end goal other than make things better than they are.
If you seriously can't see the Progressive connection to Marx/Engels, then you're obviously living in a bubble.
Yes; there was a time Progressives camouflaged their narrative, but now days they rarely hide their true colors.
Who gets to decide what's better? Or is progressivism merely a cover for imposing one set of rules and regulations on all of society? And isn't that exactly what Communism and Socialism seeks to do?
What better Forum than Government Regulation is there for the ideo-political discussion of Communism/Socialism; the most dedicated and zealous purveyor of "government regulation" ever inflicted on humanity.
The rise of the Industrial Revolution was soon followed by the rise of the Communist Revolution in accordance with the 'ideo-political manifesto' created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Every generation since has had its diehard followers of the Marx/Engels, Communist Manifesto which has been sanitized over many decades of failure in multiple countries around the world.
These Socialist/Communist failures have resulted in the oppression, suffering and mass extermination of hundreds of millions of people where the survivors are still struggling to recover and rebuild.
And still these diehard supporters of the Progressive/Socialist/Communist ideology remain loyal to the Utopian Dream because "this time" it will be different.....Are you one of these "diehard supporters"?
If so, please explain to us skeptics.....Why?
In America, that would be voters, their representatives, and the courts, and it is done slowly over time. Progressives have to compete with all the others in the marketplace of ideas. Environmentalism really began in the 19th Century. Gay Rights began in the 20's. In theory, any form of government can deliver progress. In reality, as is seen in China and Venezuela, Communism and Socialism often focus on other things like controlling the masses as opposed to improving their conditions.
Ah, yes, the tyranny of the majority. But thank God for democracy, for it alone can curtail the excesses of progressivism. While progressiveism has done much good, it has also over-reached and been rejected at times. The Eugenics Movement was a progressive idea, and while repudiated here it was adopted and implemented in NAZI Germany. Making marijuana illegal was a progressive idea, based on the fear that it made black men prey on white women. And alcohol Prohibition was a progressive idea. So while progressivism has done some good, it can be as dictatorial as any other ideology. All ideologies tend to excess eventually.
Ah, yes, the tyranny of the majority. But thank God for democracy, for it alone can curtail the excesses of progressivism. While progressiveism has done much good, it has also over-reached and been rejected at times. The Eugenics Movement was a progressive idea, and while repudiated here it was adopted and implemented in NAZI Germany. Making marijuana illegal was a progressive idea, based on the fear that it made black men prey on white women. And alcohol Prohibition was a progressive idea. So while progressivism has done some good, it can be as dictatorial as any other ideology. All ideologies tend to excess eventually.
The name itself, "Progressive" is a lie. The REAL Progressive Party from 1890 until 1930 consisted entirely of former Republicans. There wasn't a single Democrat among them.
The most famous of all the Progressive Party presidential candidates was Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. The Progressive Party supported the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments, when the Democratic Party opposed them all.
Despite that history, today we have leftists claiming they are somehow "progressive" while proposing fascism.
Not only are they completely ignorant of the history of those they pretend to mimic, they are not even close to being "progressive" by any stretch of the imagination. It is like when Democrats began calling themselves "liberal" during the 1960s. Everyone knew it was a deliberate lie. Democrats have never supported liberty in any form - ever.
So these so-called "Progressives" are nothing more than communist anti-American scum pretending to be something they are not, and hoping we are too stupid to notice.