The political spectrum

[The Sage of Main Street]

Agreed...Conversely, a gubmint like the unwieldy leviathan we have now attracts to it just the opposite characters.

Of all the political books I've ever read, this single chapter, from "The Road to Serfdom", encapsulates what we're living through right now more than any other....Talk about prophetic...

Why the Worst Get on Top - FEE

There are strong reasons for believing that what to us appear the worst features of the existing totalitarian systems are not accidental byproducts, but phenomena which totalitarianism is certain sooner or later to produce.

fee.org

We Are Born in the Dugout; and Those Born on Third Base Make Us Believe We've Been Benched


It's ironic that Hayek would use "serfdom" and not attack inherited wealth, which was the sole cause of the previous serfdom. Doubly so, because Socialism is a fantasy of richkid snakes whose Daddies told them they were born to rule.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

And, of course, the fatal flaw in your beliefs.......in the very real sense since the things you believe always lead to mass murder and mass graves......is that you think inherited wealth and power is bad, and that that wealth needs to be confiscated so it can be used more effectively.................never understanding that those who would confiscate that wealth are envious and incompetent, and have no idea how to create the wealth in the first place, but only have the skill to take what others have created and squander it.....

You don't understand this, you don't get it..........leave people alone.....let people seek their own level.......but no, that isn't how leftists roll....

You Preppy-Lovers Would Be Proud to Have Your Son Get Drafted and Die Taking a Richkid's Place

Anyone who believes in inherited wealth is not a man; he is a manservant. Richkids have no right to be in America; we must ship them and their plebeian bootlickers back to the crumbling castles of Europe where they belong.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Sounds good to me. Government is the referee.

I understand majority rules unless the majority wants to do something unconstitutional. Like there was a time the majority didn’t think gays should marry.

Only a Revolution Can Undo This Electorate of Ferals, Foreigners, Fairyphiles, Fortunate Sons, and Fruitcakes

The majority can only rule through elections if it has the right, opposed to the elitist Constitution, to determine who else can vote and who can come into our country and become a voter.

Constitutional-bangers are fundamentalist fanatics who believe that supporting some supremacist document makes them superior to the rest of us.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You're so stuffed with nonsense I understand that you can't see it.

But your OP refutes itself; it's complete garbage.

Fortune-Telling by the Fortunate Sons

Ideologies are not about ideas. They are spitball fights taking place in the classrooms of the ruling class's universities. They should be taken no more seriously than the astrological Zodiac.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Irrelevant/weird comment.

We call our kings, barons, bishops and so forth senators and businessmen.

Only the names have changed; Amazon is the new papacy.

All Evil Revolutions Have Been Led by the Sons of the Previous Ruling Class

True, but the only important thing about those previous tyrannies was that they were hereditary. Even the Pope had usually been born in the upper class. Peasant priests rarely got any higher than their birth-status.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Even the Left supported the existence of government. The Left supported Enlightenment ideas like democracy, natural rights, and equality under the law. These ideas are still supported by Western political parties today. The closest to a Right Wing we have in the West are parties that support figurehead monarchies and toothless churches, e.g. the UK.

Two Wings of the Same Vulture

 

[BackAgain]

Same Actors, Different Costumes

You bossy blowhards are incapable of any kind of intelligent debate, so you fall back on playground name-calling and nonsensical defenses, as if what your flock believes is all that is needed to settle the matter.

Irony is your forté. Too bad it’s unintended irony.

 

[Oddball]

You're confusing me with the OP, and yourself.

And you can't refute anything I've said of course, so you just hurl inane insults.

The OP is delusional garbage in service of division and confusion.

The Deep Swamp thanks you and the OP for your service.

No, I'm talking about you....You're delusional.

 

[Oddball]

We Are Born in the Dugout; and Those Born on Third Base Make Us Believe We've Been Benched


It's ironic that Hayek would use "serfdom" and not attack inherited wealth, which was the sole cause of the previous serfdom. Doubly so, because Socialism is a fantasy of richkid snakes whose Daddies told them they were born to rule.

What's to attack about inherited wealth?

 

[sealybobo]

Only a Revolution Can Undo This Electorate of Ferals, Foreigners, Fairyphiles, Fortunate Sons, and Fruitcakes

The majority can only rule through elections if it has the right, opposed to the elitist Constitution, to determine who else can vote and who can come into our country and become a voter.

Constitutional-bangers are fundamentalist fanatics who believe that supporting some supremacist document makes them superior to the rest of us.

Hey. You're just going to have to get used to being a minority. The blacks have been a minority for 400 years and still they love this country. If you can't, get out.

 

[LeroyDumonde]

anarchist dont believe in authority over other people,,

That's fine. Government doesn't have any authority over you. But how do you prevent it from kidnapping you and throwing you into a rape cage?

 

[LeroyDumonde]

no its not,, thats what you get when you dont kill people that need killing,,

a true anarchist would never lie cheat or steal from another person,,

I don't think gangs concern themselves with No True Scotsman fallacies.

 

[progressive hunter]

I don't think gangs concern themselves with No True Scotsman fallacies.

when did I say anything about what bad people do??

do try and keep up,,

 

[progressive hunter]

That's fine. Government doesn't have any authority over you. But how do you prevent it from kidnapping you and throwing you into a rape cage?

its called the 2nd amendment,,

 

[LeroyDumonde]

when did I say anything about what bad people do??

do try and keep up,,

Are you saying that government thugs are good people?

 

[progressive hunter]

Are you saying that government thugs are good people?

I never said anything about them,,

why are you trying to change the subject??

 

[LeroyDumonde]

its called the 2nd amendment,,

Good luck with that. It didn't help Randy Weaver's wife or the Branch Davidians. In fact there's a very long list of people with guns who were either killed by government agents or ended up in prison.

 

[BrokeLoser]

We need to put this shit to bed.
The extreme left is tyranny, the extreme right is anarchy.

The political spectrum is not from one tyranny to another, it is from tyranny, to total freedom. The very definition of "spectrum" should tell you that.
A spectrum is the scale of 2 opposites. Not two similarities.
Please drop your middle school interpretation of left vs right.
Real liberals are not leftists. How could someone that believes in small govt and liberty be on the side of collectivism and big govt?
Most republicans are not righties. How can people that want to use the govt to shove their version of morality down peoples throats be righties? How can people that want to use the govt to control and bail out the private sector be righties?

I like many things about the smoke more weed, faggots rock, live and let live, anything goes hippie bullshit… But show me where more wetbacks equals a better America?
NONE of the mullet rockin hippies are ever able to do that…WHY IS THAT?

dblack
Golfing Gator
Mac1958

 

[MinTrut]

That's you alright.

But you're too incompetent to recognize your incompetence, so you just troll.

 

[MinTrut]

Nobody said there was no definition, just that your absolute "spectrum" does not exist in realty

It's the delusion of an incompetent mind incapable of self-correction.

Sad really.