The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(06-30-2020, 01:41 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(06-30-2020, 12:27 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I have affiliations with liberal groups (like Unitarian-Universalism, or environmental organizations, or I have donated twice in small amounts to the Southern Poverty Law Center), but certainly not with any avowedly Marxist groups; you'd have a hard time with that one. Well, some Greens claim to be "socialists" these days, but I am not registered Green right now. But "Marxist" per se? That's pretty rare to find anyway. You would have trouble labeling anyone that in a lawsuit. It's not like McCarthy could do in the early 1950s.

But for my charge against you, all I would have to do is quote what you have said in recent posts to prove my case.

In any case, I don't think there's any law against calling someone a racist or a Marxist anyway.

Oh, there are laws against calling people racists who aren't racists and there are other serious repercussions for doing it as well. Hint, if its socialist, Communist or Fascist it's Marxist influenced. If it's liberal, it's most likely funded by Marxists or Marxist believers or Marxist followers or Marxist groups these days.  As far as I know, there is no law against calling you a Marxist or associating you with Marxism. Personally, I think we are getting pretty close to repeating history (McCarthy era) again. Of coarse, the difference will be that the government won't be as involved this time. I don't think you understand that if the liberal Democrats won't do anything about them or stop them, America itself is going to start shooting them and beating the shit out of them. I see an ugly world coming dude.

I’m not worried about it.  For decades, the internet partisans have been at it, calling any Democrat Marxist and every Republican fascist.  If every bit of internet name calling called for a judge to settle the insulted party, the judges would be absurdly busy.  I figure Classic’s threats of legal action are as empty as his threats of violence.  Lots of bark, no bite.

But whether you call them Robber Barons, the Military Industrial Complex, the one percent, the elites or the owners of the means of production, the very rich few remain a problem.  We have a problem with division of wealth.  Under one name or another, the problematic people with too much influence over the government are a problem.

I just don’t think a violent revolution is the best way to solve it, as Marx did.  Lenin, Stalin and Mao illustrate why.  It doesn’t work.

Come to think of it, if the Tea Party strove to get the Republican Establishment out of the GOP, if you took Classic’s propensity to promote violence seriously, who is the Marxist here?

Was Marx an American?

Karl, I mean. Groucho was definitely American.