Quote Originally Posted by Sugarblaster
Damn cold war scared us away from socialist ideas....
no, what scares us away from socialist ideas is common sense.

time and again our government has proven itself to be totally unresponsive to the needs of the people. big business, special interest groups, international pressures and the constant quest for re-election all come before the welfare of the nation's citizens. our elected officials are forever embroiling us in international conflicts, entangling us in questionable foreign involvements and inflicting nonsensical regulations on us designed to curtail the freedoms of a supposedly free people. all without the slightest concern for the desires of those who elected them and these are the very thieves and swindlers that a socialist system would give even more power to.

unlike the utopian concepts of communism which give the power directly to the people, socialist ideology filters that power through the state and no government has ever willingly given up a single iota of its power. graft, corruption and waste come all too easily under a socialist system and we have enough of those already. next time you decide to preach the joys of socialism, ask yourself how much you can really trust those in power and then ask yourself how much more power you would be willing to hand over to such fools.
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