[ExI] What Makes People Vote Republican

[Damien Sullivan]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 03:42:40PM +1030, Emlyn wrote:

> And yes, as someone else said in this thread, the idea that the
> democrats are socialist is pretty amusing; both of your major parties

Hell, Obama's the one who's been *against* mandatory health insurance,
which doesn't make sense for risk pool management, but is nicely
non-socialist.

> And back to Obama, all he's really proposing is to take the US a
> tentative step toward the kinds of policies that have been quietly
> working in the rest of the west for, what, a hundred years?

But those don't work!  No, not those either.  Or those!  Look, they just
don't work, okay?  They may work in practice but they don't work in
theory!

-xx- Damien X-)