10-10-2018, 02:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2018, 02:04 AM by Eric the Green.)
(10-10-2018, 12:19 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(10-09-2018, 04:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Left always represents freedom; the right-wing represents authority.Did the Soviet Union represent freedom? Do any of the communist nations that are still left represent freedom? Do you represent freedom when compared to me? Come on dude, think like a liberal before you blurt out something stupid like a person who claims to be liberal does.
These days, of course, authority uses slogans of freedom to deceive the people into voting to enslave themselves.
Totalitarian regimes are too far around the circle to be the Left that I mean. They took over by force in Russia and won a civil war. They are not like left parties in democratic countries. North Korea is horrible, and was installed in power by Russia, but Cuba may be getting better; time will tell. China is not really communist anymore, but state capitalist, and is not free. Left countries are the happiest and freest in the world, many of them in northern Europe.
I certainly represent freedom more than you. You represent enslavement to the bosses, among other oppressions. Freedom is not owning a gun. Guns destroy freedom and destroy lives. Freedom is not cowtowing to traditional, authoritarian notions of "respecting America" instead of asking that America live up to its ideals.