Government can't help, it can only hurt

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(01-30-2018, 04:11 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: The communist and fascist labels are overused in my opinion.  In their heyday they properly defined authoritarian states with expansionist tendencies.  They often in the case of communism pretended to follow Marx.  Modern US  personalities are often mislabeled.  This doesn't mean they are not flawed.

Extreme partisans often follow simplistic principles that are well outside of observable reality.  My own view favors balance between opposing principles.  If Nebraska sees regulation as always bad, while the blue world view favors regulation to criminalize abusive behaviors, I will seek balance between the two.  

So, yes, I have endorsed many of Nebraskas principles and causes, but disagree in having some faith in representative democracy.

I think the labels are old and outdated. One's dead and the other is clinging to life. I think capitalist and socialist are more accurate labels to use and to go by in today's America. Look at it/ think of it as being this way, I'm a capitalist who is on the capitalist side and you're a capitalist who is on the socialist side. Does it look, do you think that's pretty accurate? I'm not going to be offended if blues call me a capitalist because that's what I am and what I've always been since I was a little kid. The American reds are all American capitalists. The American blues are a mixture of American capitalists and European minded American socialists. Pretty accurate?