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Poll Question: Which is more dangerous?
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Points: 22767 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2017 at 03:55
The Libertarian Party got some support but it doesn't help that 1) your vote is useless if they don't win and 2) their leader is bit of an idiot.
To another point of 'this only happens in socialism' with the lack of competition, I read an article recently about Mexico where the market was so unregulated that new start-ups got no way into the market, no way to compete with the monopolists, leading to every convenience store selling the exact same one or two brands of every product. That is a problem that needs to be taken into account.
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Points: 23 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2017 at 07:10
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I was going to comment on it before, but you know with some people it's hard to have a conversation so there doesn't seem much point. One should always consider the source. While claiming to be non-partisan, the American Enterprise Institute is a right wing think tank, has ties to powerful lobby groups, that as one could guess from the name, supports free market capitalism. It is anti environmental protection, pro big business, pro tobacco and oil industry, and has advocated for less consumer protection and members have called minimum wage hikes reckless. It has been subsidized by the oil industry, as well as other industries and wealthy industrialists, for instance, the Koch brothers have helped fund it and one of them was on its wing's council. Clearly it's being supported and run by people with a vested interest in free market capitalism. As my mother, a history teacher, would always say, look for the profit motive, but with an organisation like that you don't need to look hard.


Sorry, I don't hear a real rebuttal.  Try attacking the IDEAS in the statement made by the American Enterprise Institute and not who it is associated with.

Here is the argument again: Capitalism has proven to be the best way to lift people out of poverty.
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Points: 23 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2017 at 07:12
Finally some reason from someone who lived in a socialist regime!  Thanks for your insight Upbeat Tango Monday!

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Points: 23 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2017 at 07:46
Maybe some of you will listen to Bono when he says "Commerce, entrepreneurship, not aid, lifts the most people out of poverty.  Of course we know that" "Aid is just a stopgap"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=59&v=gAjKyEGDlXA




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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 20 2017 at 09:58
Modern American Conservatism is the biggest danger because it's a mix of religion, capitalism and libertarianism. Mixed with fascism. And gigantic doses of cretinism. 
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