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A question on politics

Posted by coaldigger 7 years ago to Politics
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How is it that a political party that espouses any, if not in fact all of the positions outlined below be regaining favor and likely to return to power in the next election?
1. You owe everything you have accomplished to those that have gone before and paved the way, so you have done nothing.
2. If you aren’t given free birth control or do not use it and become pregnant, just kill it.
3. The state should provide you with all essentials for life: food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical care and whatever else you consider necessary.
4. You do not need to protect yourself, family or property because it is the states’ job and you can’t be trusted have any weapon because you might use it in some forbidden way such as posing a threat to the state or any person therein.
5. You must attend government schools to learn all the rules, the history and reason for the rules and the proper thoughts required to accept the rules.
6. The rules are relative and have no basis in law but can be changed at any time to adjust to political situations.
7. Anyone from anywhere should be able to come here, share in all of our benefits even if they can contribute nothing and may even be an enemy.
8. We have offended other countries in the past by being more successful, therefore we should apologize to them and make rules to reduce us to their level, which is only fair.
9. Thoughts that are not approved are evil, forbidden and expressing them deserves punishment.
10. Minorities are oppressed by the fact that they are fewer and therefore less powerful so the rules must be made to be in their favor so we will all be equal.
11. Goods must be produced to fill the needs of the people but no one should profit from doing so.
12. Everyone that does anything must do so in service to the state and any resistance to this requirement must be quashed.


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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Right.
    To die is the better option. Not so much to the lefties, since they have never experienced freedom or have no inkling of what it is.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    But it is happening. More and more people are getting Medicaid and EBT and working in government jobs (unproductive).
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  • Posted by term2 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I am beginning to think the collectivist policies are not expected to actually work, but are just promoted for other innamed purposes- probably emotional
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, but bank records are easier to find than love letters. Emails can be erased from private servers, but bank records are often out of reach.
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  • Posted by Solver 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    It’s not just money that motivates people. It is also power, guilt, love, pain, revenge, among other things. Many individuals would directly or indirectly hurt many innocent people to obtain or avoid these things.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years ago
    You forgot one: The state has the right to determine how much of your personal wealth you deserve to keep, and distribute the rest to those who haven't contributed.

    These tenets used to be cleverly hidden in carefully crafted propaganda. What appalls me know is that the proponents of these provisions no longer make any attempt to hide their proposals, and a gullible electorate seems to find nothing wrong with them.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 7 years ago
    always follow the money...it is what moves and motivates people....
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    You are an enemy of the state. No benefits for you. You better change your ways or you'll wind up in a gulag, in Siberia, biting off your frostbitten fingers.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 7 years ago
    13. No one should be making decisions except the elite. You are a peasant and have your place, while we are the rulers who have ours.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years ago
    Add:
    Just because someone is smarter or works harder is no reason to pay them more. Everyone is equal so everyone gets paid the same.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years ago
    It's not and any likely hood in the future is low....but if per chance they pull off the greatest scam of all time?...it's time to leave this earth.
    It has become Bizarro's world and not Superman's.
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  • Posted by 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Ha. Ha. I said white out because with a blank out you aren't aware that anything is there. With a white out, since you see light, you know something is there but you can't se it.
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  • Posted by BeenThere 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    " It is a death wish......."

    Yes, it is...................but to face that would mean insanity or suicide, so destroy everyone else instead. BT
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  • Posted by BeenThere 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    "What they don't consider is that the productive people might just decide to no longer support the system, and just withdraw (as in Atlas Shrugged)."

    Their answer is (as one once told me): "Oh, that will never happen." BT
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    As in Atlas Shrugged we are supposed to just shut up and produce. Resistance is futile.
    Unless we stop producing and, easier yet, stop consuming. We still have the power to collapse this system without firing a shot. Break the shopping addiction and regain your liberty.
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  • Posted by 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I made the partial list above because it is absurd to believe that adopting those policies could work. The opposite is true and the further towards the opposite, the better the result. Greed and lust for power does not explain this. It is a death wish for the entire species and a fate worse than death on the path to its fruition.
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  • Posted by chad 7 years ago
    Since I understand and practice Objectivism and pursue liberty I am in a very small minority! Where do I sign up for my benefits?
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  • Posted by term2 7 years ago in reply to this comment.
    So true, and it bothers me that if we dont spend our time opposing collectivism, they just take over. Better for us to take advantage of the freedoms we have to pursue our OWN lives. I have stopped watching and listening to even FOX news.

    The final straw was that They are pandering too more to leftists with their squeaky- voiced trophy newcaster women, and getting rid of the male figures that made the network big in the first place.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 7 years ago
    Isn't it interesting that the left wants all kinds of new laws but they hate the police that will enforce them? Just exactly how is that supposed to work?
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  • Posted by term2 7 years ago
    Because collectivism is the order of the day- "stronger together" as Hillary used to say. They mistakenly think that they can simply take from the people who produce ad infinitum. What they dont consider is that the productive people might just decide to no longer support the system, and just withdraw (as in Atlas Shrugged). It doesnt happen overnight, but slowly and surely people like me will just work less and spend less and just enjoy life without being on the socialist treadmill. We as a group spend too much on things we dont really need anyway.
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