tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post1406755232650185054..comments2024-03-25T14:09:25.720-05:00Comments on The Old Jarhead: Seven Rules for ProgressivesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post-71556268612326075042010-10-14T18:08:55.606-05:002010-10-14T18:08:55.606-05:00It is an excellent post, and it nails "progre...It is an excellent post, and it nails "progressives" dead on. The "progressive" system is a semantic illusion, just as socialism as a viable political system is an illusion.<br /><br />Any system that requires dumbed down sheeple, dependent on government, and kept that way through propaganda -- and as in places like North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Nazi Germany, the former Soviet Union, by police state thug tactics and the bayonet -- is doomed to failure. History is replete with proof, time and again. Eurosocialism is on the wane, and seems inept and impotent to protect itself against the cancer of sharia and Islamofascism.<br /><br />Capitalism, baby. Freedom, liberty and capitalism.Skunkfeathershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563552997319253167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post-90086768084333466372010-10-14T13:17:13.721-05:002010-10-14T13:17:13.721-05:00Better living under uthrottled capitalism than min...Better living under uthrottled capitalism than mind-rotting, incentive-choking tyranny, Anon. I prefer to think for myself.<br /><br />Excellent post.Moogie Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05665429537064900337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post-88504426446787305002010-10-13T21:50:04.026-05:002010-10-13T21:50:04.026-05:00The problem with these essays is that they
predis...The problem with these essays is that they <br />predispose that politics has some ideological<br />division in this country, it doesn't. There is<br />no liberal or conservative, there is only the <br />ruling class and the rest of us. ALL political<br />decisions are made in the interest of <br />concentrating wealth into the hands of the few.<br />The unfettered capitalism that people think is conservatism is out of balance and is destroying this country. The 2 political parties and the wedge issues identified are to give people the illusion that they live in a democracy and actually have choices in elections. They don't on both counts.<br />The parties and wedge issues are to keep people <br />arguing and fighting about nothing, to keep <br />them distracted from the real issues. <br />Republicans are not conservative, they are <br />socialists, corporate socialists. The democrats <br />are not liberals, they are fascists who will <br />protect corporations at any cost. The military <br />are not heroes who protect the American people, <br />they are terrorists who act as enforcers for <br />corporate control of foreign natural resources.<br />True capitalism will destroy any society <br />eventually. Un throttled capitalism destroys <br />jobs, raises taxes ruins environments, causes <br />crime, and destroys currencies. Unfettered <br />societal socialism destroys productivity, <br />destroys creativity, destroys markets and <br />reduces the standard of living. That's why <br />successful societies find a balance of <br />socialism that allows but throttles capitalismAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362663422037727028.post-22572552800618183732010-10-12T14:36:30.299-05:002010-10-12T14:36:30.299-05:00Excellent essay, and right on target!!Excellent essay, and right on target!!GunRights4UShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16830687524291663778noreply@blogger.com