Why do you equate socialism with hating the country?
Because I'm honest and don't refuse to speak the truth merely because imbeciles don't want to hear it.
I don't hate it. I think it could be made better.
Socialism isn't "better", son. This country was founded on principles of individual liberty, self-reliance, self-respect, and responsiblity for one's actions.
Socialism is all about stealing from the productive so the non-productive don't have to face the consequences of their lack of personal responsibility, their lack of self-respect, and their lack of self-reliance, and that, and funnelling political power to the elites promoting socialism.
I am after all a socialist and am part of a socialist community here.
I feel sorry for you.
Have you tried Viagra?
Socialism is an evolutionary growth from the death of capitalism. It is a natural occurrence and is where this country needs to go.
No, this country doesn't need to die. It doesn't need to force my children into bondage. It needs to overthrow the socialism strangling it and, if necessary, shooting all the socialists that can be found.
How can you judge Socialism so harshly when in fact there hasn't been a socialistic nation on the planet in modern times.
Just look at all the failures, then. Cuba is such a wonderful place, why aren't you socialists learning spanish and emigrating? Russia was just a wonderful socialist paradise, yet you people stayed in the good old capitalist US of A and tried to make this country that you hate so much just like them. Why didn't you move to where you were wanted, instead? You've wrecked the economy. Happy about that?
What makes you think that socialism does not promote personal responsibility more than social programs in a capitalist society. It fact in a socialist society you need to have a job.
Government funded social programs don't exist in a free capitalist society, and aren't supposed to. The creation of unlimited socialist programs in the United States is the direct cause of all current deficits and economic problems.
How're you socialists going to fund Medicare and Socialist Security, which are both going belly up?
Socialism is no more a force compliance than capitalism.
Then you don't understand your religion.
There are a zillion socialist programs in effect in this country right now. Can I not pay taxes for them and not be punished?
No, if I don't pay the taxes, rude men with guns will eventually come knocking my door down and hauling me off to jail, if they don't shoot my children first. (Randy Weaver)
So what the hell are you babbling about the "voluntary" nature of socialism when no such thing exists?
You like this system because it is the one you learned and have lived with since your youth. That's cool.
I like the system that used to exist before the worst president ever, Wilson, began wrecking it with socialist changes.
You may want to read up on what socialism really is before you outright knock it or kick it in a ditch.
I know what socialism is. It's the tapeworm of the human soul.
You thought socialism was voluntary. I proved you wrong. Time for you to go back to school, not me.
You have stated the capitalist party line in condemnation of socialism.
I stated facts.
If a group of people state facts, it doesn't alter the fact that they're facts, not propagandistic lies.
The problem is that you need to have a better picture of socialism then what you have and what most Americans have.
I have an excellent picture of socialism:
30,000,000 civillians murdered, Germany WWII.
50,000,000 civillians murdered, USSR
20,000,000 civillians murdered, China
3,000,000 civillians murdered, Cambodia
I'd have to search out how many people were murdered by Castro and Che Gueverra, and the other wonderful socialists of South America, but right off the top of my head, socialism is responsible for a minimum of 103,000,000 dead people in less than fifty years.
We don't need more socialism and we need to teach the truth about socialism. Socialism is for little whiny children who are willing to believe a mama exists for them somewhere who will love them, feed them, and keep them warm and cuddled.
Freedom is for men.