Why the majority of politicians are jokes

[iamapatient]

You have to be one of the most offensive, horrible people I've ever had the displeasure to meet. I agree with rebgirl 100%, I hope to god you get banned so we dont have to deal with you calling everyone an idiot like you're some sort of genius or some bullshit. Go to a shrink and get your superiority complex checked out.

So, in your deluded socialist world, it's OK for you but bad for me? Thanks for proving me right, yet again and thank God for the ignore feature...

[PicsorShens]

So, in your deluded socialist world, it's OK for you but bad for me? Thanks for proving me right, yet again and thank God for the ignore feature...

Is this guy serious? Like....really? Alright bro, if you wanna steal from the poor to line your own pockets that's your right, but karma's a bitch.

[FeedmeWeed]

Making money isn't about greed. Capitalists give more to charity than socialists do.

while they do give more money, they actually give exponentially less of a total percentage of their GDP. They give more because they have a lot more money, but percentage wise they actually give far far less.

Redistribution of wealth from the "rich" to the "poor" is socialism by any rational definition. The government preventing economic collapse by investing in businesses is not the same thing.

this is what I do not believe. The whole entrie world is not going into the apocalypse because we are not going to bail them out. They want you to BELIEVE that our way of life as we know it is going to end if we don't start throwing free money at corrupt mismanaged business'.

Some people just cant see past the fear tactics; just like the good ole bush times. "If we don't invade now were all going to get nuked!" and look how real that threat was :wtf:


simply put, the government is giving money to business'. how that is not socialism is beyond me. Oh yeah, must be because im just some "dumb socialist" :rasta::rasta:

[maladroit]

"Redistribution of wealth from the "rich" to the "poor" is socialism by any rational definition."

- that would mean the republican party is socialist, and the usa is a socialist country

[overgrowthegovt]

Some call socialism theft....true, but theft from thieves, for the benefit of their victims.

[McDanger]

"Redistribution of wealth from the "rich" to the "poor" is socialism by any rational definition."

- that would mean the republican party is socialist, and the usa is a socialist country

Today it pretty much is.

[maladroit]

can you name some capitalist countries that are not socialist?

[BathingApes]

If that is your definition of socialism, then John McCain is a socialist politician. Fucking Bill O'reilly is a socialist by that standard.

Look. Learn what these words fucking mean. Then debate the concepts.

[luciddreamer]

Also along the joke lines....
I just heard Obama deployed 17 000 more troops to Iraq.

Anyway. Guys, just stop arguing over which group of people is better.
It's a tactic which is used to divert attention from the fucked up things the government is doing. You're all arguing for nothing. Any system can work if it's played out correctly.

The whole reason these systems even have names is because some people looked at some guidelines for what this group would stand for. They decided yeh that's good, we'll do that. In the start most systems have good and bad things. Once they get played out for a bit it just gets more and more corrupt and I can guarantee even socialism, after time, would end up almost identical to what we have now.

[Esoteric416]

How glorious would it be if the vast majority of people in the US actually understood something about polotics and whats best for them on a governmental level.
I would love to see a day when the election comes around and America is presented with the same two choices weve always, but instead of a winner the ballots are counted and by an overwhelming majority the nation casts a vote of "no confidence" for either cantidate.
You would be able to hear me laughing from europe. That is how funny that would be.
Seriously though the US needs to do away with the laughably stupid two-party system, even just adding another party, JUST ONE, would be a huge improvement.