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    America is not a democracy. America is a Constitutional republic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    No.

    From the CIA World Fact Book:

    Country name:Canada

    Government type:

    A parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy.
    just like we would not become a socialist nation if we employed more socialist tools to help our people


    the founders used such ideas to form our Democracy you hate so much

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    No.

    From the CIA World Fact Book:

    Country name:Canada

    Government type:

    A parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy.
    Right, but they have a universal, single payer health care system. They have publicly-funded free colleges and universities. They have socialist aspects to the country, just like we do.

    We're not calling to turn the US into Venezuela, we're calling for the US to adopt some of the successful policies and agencies of our First World allies like Canada, Japan, South Korea, the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Israel, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Australia, and New Zealand.
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    CIA World Fact Book:

    " Government type:

    Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition"

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    Hello Earl,

    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    If Maduro accepted food and medicine, it would be an admission of the total failure of Socialism in his country.
    That is a narrow scope opinion. There are many more factors at play than socialism. For instance: Venezuela gets most of their power from one dam. There has been drought. The water level has dropped, causing national power outages. How do you think national power outages would affect the economy of a small nation?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    CIA World Fact Book:

    " Government type:

    Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition"
    Right, but they have socialist aspects to the country like universal, single payer health care, free public colleges, etc.

    We are talking about borrowing some of what makes Canada so successful.

    For some reason, that scares you because Canada is scary?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    No.

    From the CIA World Fact Book:

    Country name:Canada

    Government type:

    A parliamentary democracy, a federation, and a constitutional monarchy.
    Also, socialism isn't a government system, it's an economic system, and there are degrees of socialism in this country right now.

    Also, what do you think a federation means??!?!?!?!? It means more federal control.
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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    [SIZE=3]Who can beat Trump: Should the candidate go low by imitating him or go high by appealing to the best in America?

    Whoever it ends up being, he or she will be the one who went after getting the most of the kind of votes that have been required all these years to win the election. He or she will have won at least 270 of them, and was not focused on winning popularity contests.

    Trump will do it again.
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    "Matthew Reid, an analyst at Sabal Financial Group in Newport Beach, Calif., attended the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill from 2009 to 2013. He also cites lower costs as a factor in his decision. The Canadian dollar is now worth only about 70 cents U.S., and tuition costs are generally much lower to begin with. The University of Toronto costs $19,754 to $25,584 a year in U.S. dollars, for example."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evmetro View Post
    Trump will do it again.
    What if you're wrong, and he loses or doesn't run?

    What happens to you, then? Do you try to re-brand? Do you disappear from the conversation? Do you insist it's all a cover-up and lie?

    How far down the Trump hole are you willing to go?
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello Earl,



    That is a narrow scope opinion. There are many more factors at play than socialism. For instance: Venezuela gets most of their power from one dam. There has been drought. The water level has dropped, causing national power outages. How do you think national power outages would affect the economy of a small nation?
    Socialism is the control of the production of goods and services by the government. If Venezuela can not control the production of goods and services to the point that people are eating toilet paper, that is a failure of Socialism, not a dam.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    Socialism is the control of the production of goods and services by the government.
    Right, but as with all things, there are degrees of socialism. It's not an absolute like you're making it out to be, and like Canada shows.


    Quote Originally Posted by Earl View Post
    If Venezuela can not control the production of goods and services to the point that people are eating toilet paper, that is a failure of Socialism, not a dam.
    OK, but Canada has plenty of socialism and it isn't failing, and neither is Japan, South Korea, Germany, the UK, Norway, Sweden, Israel, Denmark, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Portugal, Australia, or New Zealand.

    So why can't we borrow certain aspects of those countries and apply them here?

    It's because you're afraid not of any dangers of socialism, but you're afraid people will see that you were just fearmongering because you didn't want to be proven wrong.

    Conservatives aren't afraid that single payer health care will fail, they're worried it will succeed and prove them wrong.
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