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A Call to Reason for Socialism

by ricknight | March 8, 2006 at 07:40 pm

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"Too many Americans have too little understanding of government in general, and of the distinction between government and economic systems. The vast majority of Americans would tell you we live in a democracy. There is no true democracy on Earth, and there has never been one at the national level in the history of the world. We live in a republic, because we elect Congress to vote on our behalf and the President to make executive decisions for us, instead of the citizens voting on every issue. We have representatives, which by definition makes us a republic."

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charles.hope

at 15:58 on March 10th, 2006

The author is rightly outraged by the current situation. Unfortunately, his naïve solutions only involve more cronyism and corruption. He should be calling for liberty and a truly free market instead of asking for more power to be given to the electoral system.

Adem Kupi quotes Lew Rockwell:

"The typical response of the left is to say that they want a state that
does only good things such as share and care, and not bad things such
as steal and kill. But this cannot be. We might as well wish for a lion
that only purrs and cuddles, or a rattlesnake that only provides
percussion accompaniment to mariachi music. The very nature of the
state is that it exists only through and for compulsion. To imagine
otherwise is not to face reality."

ricknight

at 16:59 on March 10th, 2006

So how does that differ from the conformity and compulsion at the hands of the modern corporate state mascarading as a democracy?

netpioneer

at 15:47 on March 17th, 2006

"Even if we ignore such economic factors as the unemployment rate, trade deficits, outsourcing of jobs, government overspending, rising healthcare costs, stagnant wages and the increasing gap between the rich and the poor, there is a more ominous cloud that capitalism is casting over our society."

Replacing the word "capitalism" by "socialism" you can find many more countries in the same situation.