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    A fact socialists hate

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    I'm not a socialist - don't believe in free college for all like Bernie. So I'm not sure why I should hate your graph.

    Don't know of anyone who denies its general truth.

    However the really poor are poorer and the really rich are swimming in it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    I'm not a socialist - don't believe in free college for all like Bernie. So I'm not sure why I should hate your graph.

    Don't know of anyone who denies it's general truth.

    However the really poor are poorer and the really rich are swimming in it.
    And yet socialists and liberals keep pushing for socialism despite its failure everywhere tried and capitalisms successes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    And yet socialists and liberals keep pushing for socialism despite its failure everywhere tried and capitalisms successes.
    I believe in capitalism - with RULES

    Sadly - Trump has usurped just about every last one

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    I'm not a socialist - don't believe in free college for all like Bernie. So I'm not sure why I should hate your graph.
    Don't know of anyone who denies its general truth.

    However the really poor are poorer and the really rich are swimming in it.
    Actually in the late 1800's and early 1900's the rich were swimming in it.

    Today there are a lot more people that are upper class that before, and the policies supported by democrats are designed to be very hard on the poor and keep them dependent. That has not changed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    I believe in capitalism - with RULES

    Sadly - Trump has usurped just about every last one
    And what are the results in just a few months?

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    The great majority of liberals are no more socialists than the average conservative is. In fact, I don't know that I've ever personally known anyone who advocated socialism. Accusing most liberals of being socialists, based on what they advocate or the causes they support, makes no logical sense. Racial, religious and gender equality? Reproductive freedom? Drug legalization? Assisted suicide? What do those things have to do, in any way, with being anti-capitalistic?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    The great majority of liberals are no more socialists than the average conservative is. In fact, I don't know that I've ever personally known anyone who advocated socialism. Accusing most liberals of being socialists, based on what they advocate or the causes they support, makes no logical sense. Racial, religious and gender equality? Reproductive freedom? Drug legalization? Assisted suicide? What do those things have to do, in any way, with being anti-capitalistic?

    Yea, right, except, like Bo, you like rules engineered by central planning, which is a basic definition of socialism.


    Those things you list have nothing to do with the topic, the success of capitalism.
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    Why is it liberals always seem to jump in with distractions when comparisons between socialism and capitalism are made. Why be defensive if, as you claim, you're not socialists?
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    Quote Originally Posted by zelmo1234 View Post
    And what are the results in just a few months?
    Horrible - that you think things are going great is telling.

    Around 3 trillion in additional deficit spending, trashing of the environment, unleashing big banks and their predatory and high risk practices, messing with states rights, protectionist withdrawal from everything policies that have isolated us from our allies and from the world, ceding alt energy development (our future) to China ..

    Would you like me to continue?
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