[ExI] we need socialism

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Sat May 24 15:25:14 UTC 2014


Libertarians don't like authority, or at least question it severely if it
is some sort of science thing.  But look at the needs of society:

Somebody has to :

take out trash
fix roads
put out fires
catch bad guys
etc.

So what we do is pool out money through taxes and pay others to do this.
OK, so this is kindergarten level, but wait.

We have a right to hate communism based on its record in Russia, N Korea,
Cuba and others.  But wait:  all of these are authoritarian-based.  Aside
from some hippie communes, where has libertarian socialism been practiced?

Many of us hated Carl Rogers and his feel-good, unconditional positive
regard theory of child raising.  But - has it ever been really tried?
Probably not, almost certainly not.  As soon as a kid left his house he
would be treated much differently.

So we need socialism, like police departments - its' just a question of how
much we will have.  This group knows this, and knows that people on the
right and people on the left will never ever agree on how much to take from
individuals to benefit society.

Or maybe 14 trillion dollars of debt is a good stopping point.  bill w
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