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My pal Omega & I were having a little chat on ICQ about the differences between the Democrats & Republicans when in a heated & empassioned moment he came out with the following:
quote:One's socialist, and disregards the rule of law whenever it's inconvenient. It lies to its constituants, and divides the people against each other.
The other's capitalist, and respects the law and the truth above all else. It tries to unite people.
Just what similarities do you see?
As you can imagine, I nearly choked to death laughing. Do you yanks really see it this way? If so, Id suggest you look outside yer own borders once in awhile and see what things are really like.
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I don't think he was saying those are the definitions of capitalist and socialist, just that those are characteristics of the parties.
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Someone care to point out exactly how these descriptions don't really apply? You just seem to generally laugh at them, without providing an actual argument. Not that I should be surprised.
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Yes Omega, there is nothing like black and white in your world is there?
And they are your descriptions, back them up.
Well, Gore did this and Clinton did that. Big freakin deal, Nixon did that and North did this.
The Republicans are not but little angels running around the forrest tapping beavers with a magic wand...which is about how stupid your descriptions are.
The broad strokes of Omega once again paint a picture of his intellectual quackery.
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Well...."first" there's the teeny problem that there's a very thin line between the two. There are many primarily capitalist countries that run policies very reminiscent of socialism, and vice versa. Ex 1: A number of capitalist countries run welfare, one that I know of runs universal health care. Ex 2: China is running a number of free economic zones...most notably Hong Kong.
Like Jay implied....you'd think there would be a large number of shades of grey (well infinite...)...
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I feel I should come to defense of Omega, but I don't know if I really could, without sounding like a spinster.
I think what Omega describes is not democrats and Republicans, but rather liberals and conservatives, especially the ones that exist today(yeah, they change over time). They aren't accurate descriptions, in any case.
Liberals have socialistic tendencies, but they're not socialists. Some liberals disregard the rule of law(I think what we're seeing in Florida is a good example), but not all of them, and certainly not a majority. The ones with a chance to gain power, maybe.
Conservatives are generally capitalistic, but they aren't the only ones. Many of them do respect the rule of law, but there are also very corrupt conservatives too with a desire for power.
I guess this is less a defense of Omega, but more of telling Omega that he's as close as he is far off. And lighten up on Omega, yeah he's arrogant, but he's also a teenager too. We're all so sure of ourselves at that age .
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