(06-11-2020, 12:53 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(06-11-2020, 12:34 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I'm going to read the whole thing, but I just have to laughingly point out that the very first paragraph contains a giant causation fail and a bunch of extreme opinion/speculation.


I'm supposed to take this seriously?  ^

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OK. I read the whole thing.  
Now I see why folks are so fearful of this movement.  You're allowing yourself to be scared into believing it's going to turn our nation to widespread socialism and some implied evil. 

Well, socialist elements are already rampant within our governments federal and local. And they will likely continue to pervade even more rather than recede over the coming decades.
 That will happen based on the success of such elements in other nations as models.
 Ford, Rockefeller and Soros' monetary contributions to a dozen different "progressive" organizations that this writer attempts to loosely connect to BLM may help such a shift over time. But it will ultimately be the will of the people to improve the structure of their government and communities that leads the charge at the voting booth to adopt more socialist leaning measures.

edited after reading full article ^

Each one of these socialist practices was enacted during a different push for communism in this country. I don't think socialism is evil because of anything inherent in the ideology. I think it doesn't work, because it can't do what it promises. It uses the flaws of humanity to advance it's ideology, but once instituted in any nation, ultimately fails due to those same flaws in humanity. Look  at the lifespan of socialist nations. It doesn't work.

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Also, there is a fine line, as I've said before, between socialist and welfare. None of the programs in the US are socialist, with the exception of social security kinda.

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