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• Sunday, October 5, 2008 05:31 AM

  kovie

  What difference does it make, really? Or are you making that silly old "Conservatism didn't fail, conservatives failed conservatism" bullshit argument that is the exact same one made by silly unreconstructed old communists who simply couldn't face up to the utter failure of that other pony-chasing ideology? Free market capitalism didn't fail because it was hijacked by corrupt people. It failed because it's an idiotic and simple-minded faith and greed-based economic ideology that you really have to be an idiot or a nutcase to believe in (or a sociopath to not care so long as you're raking in the big bucks). It has NEVER succeeded, unless your definition of success is massive short-term gains by corrupt assholes who rob everybody else blind.

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  -- kovie

  Once upon a time the word "liberal" meant something totally different in politics than it does today. The word was hijacked because of the great respect the vast majority gave it. You see, labels are often used to cover the real agenda.

  You show yourself to be uneducated in economics; no shame there. But you also show yourself to have bought into the government's wonderful game of first causing big trouble and then offering itself as the only solution available for the cure of the disease. Go ahead and believe that; hell, most ignorant Americans do.

  However, it is true that America has practiced fascism to one degree or another since WWII or before. We call it other things and pretend that we would never do what those nasty Italians did; but an honest look says that we would --- and do.

  Free market capitalism means no government involvement; and yet, government is the root cause of the problem we see today. Your little "ponies" crap not withstanding.

  —heru-ur Read heru-ur's other letters
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