03-24-2019, 06:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-24-2019, 06:19 AM by Bill the Piper.)
(03-23-2019, 11:14 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: As I explained, the free market fundamentalists, which rule the Republican Party today, and have ever since Reagan at least, are very close to fascism, because they enable the corporate elite to rule without any oversight or regulation from the people through their government. Government by the people protects liberty. Government is not necessarily a problem, as the Reaganoids have falsely claimed and still claim.
Reagan could be somewhere between pro-market Individualism and some form of Traditionalism, he called himself a conservative for some reason.
Actual libertarians are not really fond of Reagan, though they might prefer him to someone like Obama.
https://mises.org/library/myths-reaganomics
https://mises.org/library/sad-legacy-ronald-reagan-0
I'm not a libertarian, since I prefer "compassionate capitalism" to both market fundamentalism and socialism. I'm more with Obama on economic policy, but more with Bush on culture and war on terror. I don't like Reagan as a man, and I don't agree with his worship of money, but still he deserves some credit for defeating the USSR. I wouldn't call him a fascist, after all he didn't send his opponents to concentration camps. Left-wing activism was quite popular in the US in the 80s.
Quote:If you say Corbyn supports Putin and Hamas, I need to see actual quotes from him. BTW, people who oppose the genocide being committed by Israel against its neighbors today do not necessarily support Muslim terrorists either.
According to Mr Corbyn, Hamas works for peace and social justice. An actual quote:
The idea that an organisation that is dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people, and bringing about long-term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region, should be labelled as a terrorist organisation by the British government, is really a big, big historical mistake.
https://ukmediawatch.org/2015/06/16/guar...eftwinger/
As for Russia, it seems he wants to be neutral in the struggle between Putin and Russia's western neighbours. He believes Putin's actions in the Ukraine were provoked by the Ukrainian government wanting to join NATO. I'd argue it count as supporting the tyrant in practice.
What genocide in Israel??? It's a lie spread by Arab nationalists and islamists. Look at the facts:
http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/...ry559.html
(scroll to Table 1. Palestinian population is steadily growing)
More recent data:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographi...statistics
Where are the deaths caused by alleged genocide?
Quote:Democratic socialism which still allows a balance of free enterprise and state regulation and ownership is not anywhere near the bottom of the political circle, or anywhere near communism or fascism.
Are there any real-life examples of such democratic socialism? A balance of free enterprise and state-run enterprise is found in most democracies all over the world. What do you think is missing?