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Originally Posted by bernardos70
So what you're saying is the current Republican party is no better than a 1913 New York Times columnist?
Listen, even I think that's a bit harsh.
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No, I'm saying that
a) the Republican Party is made up of a bunch of useless hypocrites and clowns; and
b) the Democrats are socialists.
These two ideas are not mutually exclusive.
I thought the 1913 Times writer nailed it:
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Much that Karl Marx taught is rejected by present-day Socialists. Mr. Roosevelt achieves the redistribution of wealth in a simpler and easier way. He leaves the land, the mines, the factories, the railroads, the banks--all instruments of production and exchange--in the hands of their individual owners, but of the profits of their operation he takes whatever share the people at any given time may choose to appropriate to the common use. The people are going to say, 'We care not who owns and milks the cow, so long as we get all of the milk and cream.'
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Obama and McCain, like TR before them, offer refinements to socialist thought of the early 1900 -- not sharp contrasts.