Subj : Socialist "Democrats"
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Wed Nov 26 2025 08:05:00

MP> When I was in college, the people who most loudly proclaimed
  > that they were "Democrats" were all social/communists.

They always used to say that young people were Liberals and,
as they got older, turned into Conservatives..

It's been said (arguably) that Communism is the best form of government
but the problem is it relies on total honesty for it to work properly
so, knowing humans, it's never going to work.
Pretty much all communist countries have a VERY weathy small upper
class and a very poor everyone else in a system where everyone is
supposed to, in theory, share everything equally.

So, in the end, if working hard gets you nothing extra then the only
way to beat the system is to do as little work as you can possibly
get away with, then you make the same as your neighbour does while
doing less work than they do. Commie countries aren't usually well
known for their high production output..

Now, before I get labelled a Commie, I've gone against the more
socialistic leanings in Canada since day one. You see the same
thing with strong unions. It's almost impossible to fire someone
so why work any harder than absolutely necessary?

I always worked harder and that got me raises and promotions
that others didn't get much of the time, plus threats from the
union to go with it.

But, that said, extremes are never good. Being too far on the
Capitalistic side is abusive to a lot of the population as well.
That's how all those nasty unions came about..     B)

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