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Scribbler1 · Nov 21, 2003, 01:24 am

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (ColWTH,)
G Adams,

You goof balls crack me up. Your little utopian nonsense has been bandied about for over 100 years and it has not even come CLOSE to fruition! Workers revolution! Ha, ha. A discredited threory scooped up out of the ash heap of history.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

The answer there is fear, plain and simple. Whether we are happy with our lot in life or miserable, we are USED to it, and the fear of change is a powerful one. Sure, we could TRY Communism or anything else, but the fear is that if we make such a radical change and the supporters are wrong, how the hell do we get back to where we were.

I know this belongs in the "Quotes" topic, but I couldn't resist.

"Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms which have been tried from time to time."
-Sir Winston Churchill in a speech to the House of Commons. 11/11/1947

Nov 21, 2003, 01:24 am	#97 (permalink) (top)
Scribbler1 Skeptical Patriot Posts: 7,746	</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (ColWTH,) G Adams, You goof balls crack me up. Your little utopian nonsense has been bandied about for over 100 years and it has not even come CLOSE to fruition! Workers revolution! Ha, ha. A discredited threory scooped up out of the ash heap of history.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'> The answer there is fear, plain and simple. Whether we are happy with our lot in life or miserable, we are USED to it, and the fear of change is a powerful one. Sure, we could TRY Communism or anything else, but the fear is that if we make such a radical change and the supporters are wrong, how the hell do we get back to where we were. I know this belongs in the "Quotes" topic, but I couldn't resist. "Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms which have been tried from time to time." -Sir Winston Churchill in a speech to the House of Commons. 11/11/1947 Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots.