Re: Does anyone know anything?
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Basically I think it is funny when people use words like liberal and socialist as slurs when the Labour Party of GB (one of our staunchest allies, and a favorite of GWB) calls itself socialist.
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They may call themselves socialist but no one who isn't mentally unstable believes that.
Mack
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I was trying to make the greater point that people tend to overlook the nuances of language when trying to prove some politically charged point. For example lumping together every nation or person that may have some support for socialism or communism, and presenting that as evil.
Too often this forum turns into psuedo-intellectual McCarthyism with posters completely dismissing ideas with useless invective. Seriously, no matter how right wing you are you should be able to comprehend the possibility that some people might see the value of the minimum wage.
A thought... in a free market not everyone has equal power, yet most modern societies propagate equality as a virtue. Is everything they do to reconcile that situation socialist?
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