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The Powell Endorsement | 38 comments (38 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Socialist (4.00 / 2)
It demonstrates 2 things:

  1.  The abject stupidity of the average American.  Let's remember, we have a high school C average bell curve in this country.  If you go to grad school and then re-enter into a "normal" job market, the comparison is striking.

  2. The excellent marketing job the ultra-wealthy have done for their "product".  Americans will "buy" ANYTHING marketed properly.


They tried to assimilate me. They failed.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Mon Oct 20th, 2008 at 08:20:52 AM EST
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Re: Socialist (none / 1)
THE Twank:
 The abject stupidity of the average American.

I doubt that norms of political discourse prove or disprove anything.

Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine
by UnEstranAvecVueSurMer (holopherne ahem gmail) on Mon Oct 20th, 2008 at 03:38:23 PM EST
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That's not prejudice ... (none / 1)
... on religious, ethnic, racial, or any such grounds.

That's prejudice based on political ideology.

And the idea that someone should ignore whether a candidate for political office holds a political ideology that they are utterly opposed to, when deciding who they would and would not support, seems to me to be monumentally silly.

Seriously, if you think that Colin Powell believes that anyone is qualified for the Presidency who supports state ownership of any strategic means of production that the private sector would rather own, but is refraining from defending socialism because of its unpopularity, you are imbibing something more serious than mary jane.

And if the term socialism is not taken to mean anything that is explicitly socialist, but is just brand name attached to a mixed economy social democratic position because its a useful brand name for marketing in Europe ... well, if its just a marketing slogan, why bother with it in markets where it does not have the same positive connotation?

The idea that a center-right moderate Democrat like Senator Obama is socialist is, as Colin Powell rightly points out, laughable. And whether or not the tag will always disqualify a politician from election as President in the US, certainly from a "moderate Republican" position like Colin Powell's, it always should.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Oct 21st, 2008 at 12:25:22 AM EST
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