Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Fair and Balanced-'Duties Of a Democracy' -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (493)	9/14/2006 5:51:58 PM
From: ksuave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1262

ALL government is a form of socialism, and insofar as government is essential in human society, all socialism is not evil. Nor is all government, and placing the government in the hands of people who profess to be anti-government is absurd. They will use the government to suit their purposes and they will use the lack of it to suit to their purposes. I.E. -- the Bush administration . . . big government working for them, no government for everyone else.

To: Catfish who wrote (493)	9/14/2006 7:49:46 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1262

Buishies do not believe in democracy, nor Jeffersonian principals of truth, honest debate and checks and balances. What they do believe in in an elitist rightwing corporate class which hoodwinks the workingclass into voting for them using wedge issues like guns, Jesus, abortion and gays, and if Bushies fear they'll lose, they have no ethical problem with outright cheating. Also, the electoral system and the jerrymandering benefits the GOP. Both steal democracy from the American people. Many top Bushie strategists are on record as stating that democracy is not the best thing for America. Bush himself said he would would prefer to be a dictator.

To: Catfish who wrote (493)	9/16/2006 12:50:37 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1262

Remember McCarthyism and the big lie they told. Which ressembles Bushism now. They took "communism" which in its infancy was an idealistic vision Christ would have 100% supported, that is sharing, which every child is taught is a good thing, then because the Soviet Union and China bastardized it and turned it into dictatorships, they blamed everyone who believed in worker's and farmer's rights, peace, civil rights and free speech and accused them of being "the enemy" (with the Soviet Union), and since communism was government-controlled, that is socialist, they demonized socialism even though every single US ally in the western world is socialist, including Canada, which is in much better shape than we are these days, and they called anyone who wanted social programs like universal health care (which works) "communists", so basically anyone faintly liberal becomes an enemy of the state and only those who believe in one party elitist industrial-military rightwing rule is a "patriot". Only they had it totally backwards. The real patriots were the ones who wanted government for the people, by the people, and who believed "this is land is our land" not the land of the 2% richest and most greedy only. Bottomline, capitalism is fine, but too much of it = corruption and a military-industrial elistist autocratic dictatorship. Which becomes fascism. Which is where we are headed now if we don't vote these bastards out of office fast.