Does anyone know anything?

[ACPlayer]

OK. So you applied a label of "Pinko anti-capitalist"to those who support minimum wage.

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I don't think they should be allowed to vote because thier too retarded.

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How do you label a person who believes that a group of people that dont agree with him should not be allowed to vote? Certainly not a democracy supporter, definitely not a socialist, not a "classic" liberal, not an American style Conservative, I am running out labels I can safely use. Any suggestions?

[lehighguy]

I begrudgingly accept the fact that they can vote. Simply because to take away someone's right to vote causes problems.

However, I have no illusions they will add to the political process. Anyone stupid enough to support a min wage probably can't add two numbers or go to the bathroom by themselves. The idea that they pick our leaders is disheartening.

Mainly, I'm just mad at stupid people. As citizens we have responsibilities to be remotely knowledgeable about the issues we vote on. Voting is both a right and a priviledge with attached responsilities. Just as I think its amazingly retarded people don't want evolution taught in schools, its amazingly retarded someone would want a minimum wage. We aren't talking about an idealogical difference here. We aren't talking about what is an approriate level of taxation or what we can do for the enviorment. Those are value judgements. However, policies like the two I mentioned are simply retarded, there is no logical arguement for them. Anyone that supports them does so through sheer ignorance of simple facts and logic. Facts and logic that they as voting citizens have a responsibility to understand.

[ACPlayer]

Well, it so happens that I begrudgingly accept the fact that you are allowed to vote. The world would probably be better off if economists never voted so we can form the society without their inputs. I actaully think only Computer Scientists should pick our leaders because we know what is better for the rest of the people.

It is a good thing that there are people of opposing views.

And thats the way it is.

[Shaun]

Britain is a hybrid of socialism and capitalism, as is the US. China is moving toward capitalism but is still Communist, so it's a hybrid of sorts as well. The USSR was Communist.