What are you most like politically?

[iclaudius]

Quote by: gw120 Can you explain why you don't? I believe in socialism because I think there is no need for you to own a 1000 hp car, and have an elevator in your 10 story household, because it makes everyone around you poorer. Also because in capitalisms people get rewarded for their greed, and the hardest working get nothing while the fat pigs who do nothing other than think of ways to be more evil get payed millions. Not to mention 1% of the nation (America) owns 33% of the wealth. Look at this Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power

Can I explain why I don't? Oh, I suppose I could get into all the reasons why I find Socialism, Communism, Marxism, and all the like to be utterly and totally detestable forms of government... Take, for instance: the psychological impact of forced "equality"; the fact that such so-called equality solves almost no problems that capitalism presents; the fact that this strained equality doesn't even create equality, and actually undermines it; the fact that such strained equality can only a be formulated into a just and effective organization if and when its subjects agree to it wholly, on an impossibly deep psychological level; I could go on. For your sake, and the sake of my fingers, I'll just address the issues that you want me to address. Your argument, it seems to me, is just a Socialist guilt trip. I don't give a damn who holds what wealth for what reason... all you've shown me is that you know how to toss a mean word salad that's supposed to make me feel all remorseful because there are starving people in Ethiopia. It's your job, as a member of this debate site, to demonstrate to us 1) that those things you've listed are bad (INCLUDING why they're bad), 2) that Socialism fixes these things, and 3) how Socialism fixes these things. That includes explaining to me why luxury is not justified if some people are too poor to survive.

[phoenix_fire]

To answer the OP, politically, I am most like a small, peaceful nation that was not invited to the meeting that the two much larger neighboring nations are having as to whether to use my nation as a nuclear missile testing range or a slave market.