The free markets at work...

[cawacko]

Cypress, you are free not to speak to me. That is your right. But let's be clear about one thing. You thanked a post that said anyone who votes or has voted Republican is a racist. I vote Republican when I have the opportunity so you are calling me a racist. And you have openly said you have voted Republican in the past so you are calling yourself a racist. That's why I said what I did. I never called you a racist prior to you thanking that statement.

As far as deregulation, yes, many people on the right will back deregulation if it's for a cause they support. That doesn't mean we should have no regulation. Again, that's just a strawman and/or flat out lie.

[Nordberg]

Cypress, you are free not to speak to me. That is your right. But let's be clear about one thing. You thanked a post that said anyone who votes or has voted Republican is a racist. I vote Republican when I have the opportunity so you are calling me a racist. And you have openly said you have voted Republican in the past so you are calling yourself a racist. That's why I said what I did. I never called you a racist prior to you thanking that statement.

As far as deregulation, yes, many people on the right will back deregulation if it's for a cause they support. That doesn't mean we should have no regulation. Again, that's just a strawman and/or flat out lie.

Again, all Republicans are not racists, but racists are Republicans. They are not at home in the Democratic party.

[cawacko]

Again, all Republicans are not racists, but racists are Republicans. They are not at home in the Democratic party.

You keep telling yourself that to feel superior white man. Ignorance is bliss

[Althea]

The western liberal welfare state is the most successful socio-economic model in human history. People like FDR recognized that capitalism, left to its own devices, causes an intolerable amount of human misery. Necessitating the need to put an iron grip of restraint and regulation on the free markets, and recognizing that the core needs of a nation cannot be trusted to the profit motive.

I think the argument can be made that the most admired, successful, and egalitarian socio-economic model in human history, are the liberal social welfare states of the Nordic countries.

Centuries ago, the first so called classical liberal economists assumed that pure human reason and self-interest could prevail to serve society's needs, and that government should get out of the way of the markets and the economy. Time has not been kind to these libertarian wet dreams, and there is no country on the planet that serves as a successful economic model of the kind American conservatives advocate for - aka, dismantling the New Deal, the Great Society, wholesale deregulation and privatization, and unleashing the magic of the free markets. It was always horseshit, and we knew it was horseshit over a century ago.

Agree, but it's always hard to compare anyone to the U.S, as we waste billions on defense, that could go to improving society.

[Althea]

You have NEVER answered them either you lying shit brick

Now you see why I have him on ignore for months

[evince]

You keep telling yourself that to feel superior white man. Ignorance is bliss

wack the republican party is nearly all white


the Democratic party is way multicolored

[evince]

Now you see why I have him on ignore for months

hes pretty lame

[Althea]

To be clear, I do not think most individual Republicans want eight year old boys and girls to work 16 hours a day in inhumane conditions. But that is exactly what would happen when the profit motive takes root in an under-regulated capitalist economy.

The point is that the free markets - capitalism - left to its own devices results in exploitation, cruelty, inhumanity, for the benefit of a select few.

The conservatives who worship at the altar of the free market, and the conservatives who ever want to eliminate regulations, who relentlessly holler the slogan "get the government out of the way!", apparently forget the history of capitalism.

In my opinion, if you want to live without a framework of regulation and taxes, you really should consider moving to Somalia.

To be fair, we'll never see child labor here. We'd have to pay them more than the Chinese children we employ now.

[evince]

their whole Idea is to level the USA with the third world

[Althea]

hes pretty lame

He's a good kid, but more often than not, you would swear he's in the wrong thread

[Nordberg]

You keep telling yourself that to feel superior white man. Ignorance is bliss

How do facts make me feel superior?

[cawacko]

How do facts make me feel superior?

First off, you completely missed the point of Cypress’ post in relation to himself. Second, if you think being a Democrat means you can’t be racist is just ignorant. But that’s not what this thread is about.

[Nordberg]

First off, you completely missed the point of Cypress’ post in relation to himself. Second, if you think being a Democrat means you can’t be racist is just ignorant. But that’s not what this thread is about.

That what you thought I said? I can see why you are a righty. You missed it totally. The Democratic party has platforms and an agenda for equality, from color, sex to anything else. The Repubs do not. If forced to, they will provide weak lip service. But their fingers are crossed when they vow to do better. The white power types, Nazis and bigots have lots of company on the right.

[cawacko]

That what you thought I said? I can see why you are a righty. You missed it totally. The Democratic party has platforms and an agenda for equality, from color, sex to anything else. The Repubs do not. If forced to, they will provide weak lip service. But their fingers are crossed when they vow to do better. The white power types, Nazis and bigots have lots of company on the right.

You don’t understand the issue between cypress and I. I explained it but you aren’t able to comprehend it.

[Nordberg]

You don’t understand the issue between cypress and I. I explained it but you aren’t able to comprehend it.

Yeah, that must be it. Your thoughts are so esoteric that few can keep up.
You claimed, incorrectly, that I was saying leftys cannot be racists. I did not. Just they have a welcome home in the Republican party.