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U.S. Capitalism or Socialism?

Which of these best descirbes the market/government relationship in the U.S.?

  • Pure Socialism

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pure Capitalism

    Votes: 3 10.3%

  • Mixture of Capitalism and Socialism

    Votes: 24 82.8%

  • Neither or Other (please explain)

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Total voters
    29
winston53660 said:
The left wing pundits equal to the likes of Coulter and Limbaugh do not have the exposure to alter the connotation of "Nazi" at this point in time.
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You're willfully failing to understand the point.
Not a surprise.
 
The US is compassionate capitalism.
 
BulletWounD said:
Admit it. The left loves to throw around words like "nazi" and especially "fascist" and "neocon." These words have lost all meaning as well.
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Actually, that's very true. The left does toss around the term nazi far too much. However, that doesn't change the fact that the right throws around the term socialism too much. Both sides are hypocrites.
 
I already did.
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I was referring to the OP, but ok. So you define socialism as state ownership. That doesn't really say much.

I suggest you and other liberals
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"I disagree with him so he must be a dang lib'rul!"

People are not interested in diversions created to subvert a topic
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On the contrary, it is fundamental to the topic; we cannot determine if the US is socialist if we do not even have a definition for the word.

Anything to **** up a thread, right? You people are freaking lazy.

Capitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization"

It seems that you're the lazy one.
 
Cilogy said:
Which of these options would you classify as the tactics of the U.S. in terms of the market and government relationship?

I'm just curious to see what people think and see what some of our most partisan members think as well.
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I think that the U.S. is a mixture of quasi mercantilism/socialism.

Depending on who is in control it shifts from one direction to the other but it mostly holds this position.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
I was referring to the OP, but ok. So you define socialism as state ownership. That doesn't really say much.



"I disagree with him so he must be a dang lib'rul!"



On the contrary, it is fundamental to the topic; we cannot determine if the US is socialist if we do not even have a definition for the word.



"Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization"

It seems that you're the lazy one.
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Socialism - Any agreement among people that makes it so that raw production earns you merit in fields that we normally reserve for smart people.


Or you can go by this woman's definition :p It's pretty funny.

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Populism seems much more relevant than socialism, or more so in the minds of democrat politicians and their supporters.
 
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