Varya said:
Maybe if you looked at a country that actually applied Left-wing politics for about 50 years, like, oh say Sweden, you'd see that we are a country with high equality, very few cases of corrupt politicians and our liberal views on the nuclear family means most people don't give a fuck if you have two daddies, and that people don't feel peer-pressure to stay in an abusive relationship.
I'm not saying we have a perfect country, but it seems to me that in the US you take the view that if the current government don't make peace on earth within it's first year, every little thing that goes wrong, from earthquakes to individual deaths, are blamed on the President. This goes for both parties btw. Maybe if you actually had some form of law that required politicians to back up their claims, so that they couldn't get away with making statistics up their asses or deny proven science, you'd have some facts based on actual, unbiased studies. Problem is of course that a studies performed by educated people is considered bias by 50% of the population that thinks that actually being educated makes you bias to "the science religion" and that proof are easily disputed with "common sense"
I wen't on a bit of a rant there but your comment really rubbed me the wrong way.
Here's the thing; the socialist Nordic countries work *despite* socialism, not because of it. With small, culturally homogeneaic peoples, there's a strong pressure not to abuse the system. Furthermore, it's easy to find the bureaucrat who makes the decisions, and explain to them why a new postal box (or whatever) would be a smart decision.
It's the same reason socialism works in families, and in the army, but not in larger life.
In the US socialism is used as a tool to turn groups against eachother; robbing from Peter to pay Paul, convincing people to identify with their victim group, and demand concessions from society at large, regardless of the harm this does to society, or to themselves.
Also, I never blamed this on the President; granted, he's an incompetent buffoon, but having Ron Paul in that office wouldn't change things (though it might 'discredit' Libertarinism after he failed to make any changes). Politicians aren't the problem - they're present to give you the illusion of control over a civil service, eductional system, and MSM propaganda machine which are deeply entrenched and unreachable.
Consider this: the most insanely right-wing pundit of the present era (Rush Limbaugh, or whomever you want to choose) would - in 1950 - have been considered a moderate, at the very least, or more likely a left-leaning hippie.
The devil was the first whig, and he's been winning for 500 years; things are getting worse, and the nuclear family is dissolving, the economy is turning to serfdom, and ugliness is called beauty. We're in Rome's bread and circus days - just look at modern art such as Piss Christ for the evidence of that. Women have become whores and the modern men are pathetic.
H.L. Menken saw where this was going a century back; liberals are the poison, and conservatives aren't the answer. I'll stand by him on that bit of Reactionary ground.
