"Democratic Socialism" does NOT mean "Ceaușescu's Romania" or "Brezhnev's U.S.S.R.".

[HughBeaumont]

CEOs who would automate or offshore/inshore every job except their own if they could (as long as their products are still bought) are not "Job Creators".

"Peace through Strength" makes about as much sense as "Sobriety through Alcoholism" or "Virginity through Fucking".

You're posting on a product of government largesse. The roof you live under was the product of governmental origination. The concept of "property" has always been rooted in law. You were educated in a government funded entity. The road you drive on is repaired on your dime. The air you breathe is made clean thanks to your tax dollars. The job you go to is safe and free of child labor thanks to government and the unions that demanded government do something about both problems. Because of these facts and many others, not a single solitary person on Earth can logically call themselves "Self Made". I'm fine with that. Aren't you?

Poor people spending money keep you employed every day of your life. Taking money away from people who have to spend every dime would cause an economic catastrophe, not motivate them to be better.

Speaking of which, logically explain to me how someone "Supersizes their Skill Set, Haw Haw" in costly 2016 making 7.25 an hour or less.

Six corporations owning all of your news, information and entertainment doesn't in any goddamned universe make that media "liberal".

We have not been practicing Keynesianism for four decades, Reagan and Dubya were not "statists", a Fair Tax benefits the idle wealthy and screws the middle/working/poor, abolishing the minimum wage will not inspire the owner to pay you better, there IS income inequality, there IS wage stagnation and Adolf Hitler was not a fucking lefty. Stop listening to right-leaning libertarians and anarcho-capitalists, they're a bunch of fuckknob men's rights activists who would rather die than blame conservatives or corporations for any of our problems.

Finally, to anyone who believes the St. Reagan chestnut "Government IS the Problem" (and when you say that, let's not play dumb, you REALLY mean "LIB'RULS IS the problem&quot . . . count how many moderates, center-righters, Republicans and batshit-insane Theocrat neo-fascists exist in our government compared to actual FDR progressives. Sorry kiddo, your kind is tipping that scale in a millisecond.

You are more "government" than we are by a mile, wingnuts, so stop bitching, get out of the Reagan 1980s and LIVE IN THE NOW!!

[warrprayer]

1. Kick

And rec.
Well said!
Enough is enough.

[imanamerican63]

2. If you really think about it?

Everyone is a socialist. Dems try to help the less fortunate and the Repubs want to take from the less fortunate and make them richer. That is a socialistic divide. It would explain why the Repubs are always mad when we stand up to them in a conversation about social issues.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Well it does on Free Republic or to Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh or to your basic rightwinger.

How it became that here escapes me.

[n2doc]

4. Propaganda works

And people choose to believe what re-enforces their biases. It is easier than keeping an open mind.

[HughBeaumont]

9. "Too Big A Tent."

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I'm noticing red-baiting here . . . the stuff of hoi-polloi comments sections. It's disheartening what goes on in GD-P.

[hfojvt]

10. it does to a whole lot of American voters

wishing that wasn't so, berating those who have swallowed the propaganda, is not going to make that simple fact go away.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Yes I realize that 40-50% of the voters are rightwing.

Did you have some other point?

[craigmatic]

5. More like Attlee's UK which is fine with me.

[phantom power]

6. It means "America in the 1960s"

[DefenseLawyer]

7. It's something even more radical called "The New Deal" n/t

[raouldukelives]

8. K&R nt