I am beyond sick and tired of always reading weblogs or watching the news and hearing someone screaming at the top of their lungs. SOCIALISM!!!! COMMUNISM!!!! MARXIST!!!!
Seriously, how many of you out there can actually give me an accurate description of what theoretical socialism is? How about communism? Have any of you shouters ever read Marx's communist manifesto? Or Adam Smith's wealth of nations?
By the way, I think it's a bit ironic that republicans are screaming and whining about the health care bill being almost 2000 pages. After all, the free market is the way to go, and communism sucks. Although the Manifesto itself is roughly 80 pages, and Wealth of Nations is more than 1200. But I digress...
We are a nation that prides ourselves with our right to speak freely and question our leadership. But you do realize we are just as brainwashed as those poor devils whom we try hard to liberate. For example, what if I told you right now that a capitalist free market is a bad thing? How many of you read that last question and your blood began to boil at my heresy?
As Socrates so skillfully pointed out a few millenniums ago, if you ever challenge a person's belief system they will fight harder and more desperately than for anything else in this world to defend it.
But alas, all it seems we are left with anymore are a bunch of underinformed whiners who seem to enjoy shouting for the sake of shouting because dammit, we can.
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