comment elsewhere (economics and dogmatism and whatsits)
dogmatism comes in all ideological stripes. it's a curse wherever it shows up, in my opinion. don't judge progressives by the loudmouthed idiots and people looking for someone to project their victimization complexes onto. (just because someone is victimized doesn't mean they have a right to project that onto everybody who looks like the perpetrator. the system, sure. the victimizer, sure.)
my question for people who have difficulty with _any_ socialism (which i'm not sure is what you're saying, because radical socialism is insane) is twofold:
1)should children be left to starve, freeze, and die of preventable illnesses because their parents are incapable of taking care of them properly- for whatever reason, be it disability, single parenthood, or pure irresponsibility? should adults?
2)is it actually ideological pure capitalism when plutocrats make the rules by which wealth is distributed, inevitably in their own favor, in order to retain economic advantages for themselves and their network?
(pure capitalism is as impossible an ideal as equitable socialism)
and:
98% Mike Gravel
94% Dennis Kucinich
79% John Edwards
76% Bill Richardson
74% Chris Dodd
73% Barack Obama
70% Joe Biden
70% Hillary Clinton
32% Ron Paul
27% Rudy Giuliani
22% John McCain
21% Mike Huckabee
18% Tom Tancredo
15% Mitt Romney
11% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
so, as i've said previously, ron paul leads the list of contenders for the republican nomination. not that i'm gonna jump party lines. opposing Roe V Wade is an automatic dealbreaker for me.
who's mike gravel, i asked? googled, and remembered- that alaskan senator who isn't totally gun controlled to the gills. (gun control doesn't do very well in alaska for some obvious reasons.) yeah. well. the top of my list is never a pragmatic decision. i need to vote in the primaries for someone who has a decent chance of winning the fall elections. the decision, for me, becomes: who appears less buyable?
we'll see.
the republican field all make me feel ill. they've fielded a better set of candidates in the past.
my question for people who have difficulty with _any_ socialism (which i'm not sure is what you're saying, because radical socialism is insane) is twofold:
1)should children be left to starve, freeze, and die of preventable illnesses because their parents are incapable of taking care of them properly- for whatever reason, be it disability, single parenthood, or pure irresponsibility? should adults?
2)is it actually ideological pure capitalism when plutocrats make the rules by which wealth is distributed, inevitably in their own favor, in order to retain economic advantages for themselves and their network?
(pure capitalism is as impossible an ideal as equitable socialism)
and:
98% Mike Gravel
94% Dennis Kucinich
79% John Edwards
76% Bill Richardson
74% Chris Dodd
73% Barack Obama
70% Joe Biden
70% Hillary Clinton
32% Ron Paul
27% Rudy Giuliani
22% John McCain
21% Mike Huckabee
18% Tom Tancredo
15% Mitt Romney
11% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
so, as i've said previously, ron paul leads the list of contenders for the republican nomination. not that i'm gonna jump party lines. opposing Roe V Wade is an automatic dealbreaker for me.
who's mike gravel, i asked? googled, and remembered- that alaskan senator who isn't totally gun controlled to the gills. (gun control doesn't do very well in alaska for some obvious reasons.) yeah. well. the top of my list is never a pragmatic decision. i need to vote in the primaries for someone who has a decent chance of winning the fall elections. the decision, for me, becomes: who appears less buyable?
we'll see.
the republican field all make me feel ill. they've fielded a better set of candidates in the past.