02-07-2019, 04:53 AM
(02-07-2019, 04:32 AM)taramarie Wrote:(02-07-2019, 04:11 AM)Galen Wrote: If this doesn't illustrate what really motivates the left then I don't know what will.
I am not about generalizations either. Kind of like many other generalizations. It ignores for the sake of individual bias and inner comfort in what that person feels more comfortable as calling truth.
If you are willing to use force to take from one to give to another, which is what the left is willing to do, then it is very hard to see them as benevolent. In a very real sense Eric the Obtuse sees me and others like me as standing in the way of heaven on earth and so would have no problem pointing a gun a me and pulling the trigger to get what he wants. Do you really think he is all that unusual among the left?
Robert Heilbroner is unusual among socialists in that he was willing to tell the truth about socialism. I strongly recommend that you consider his words.
After reading that do you really think that the attitude of Eric the Obtuse is really all that unusual among the left?
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises