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Originally Posted by Sonist
Uhm, how open-minded to those with differing political views.... Would you like to line them up against the wall, too?
I guess you've never lived, or talked to, anyone who's had the joy to live in a socialist paradise.
BTW, both socialism and nazi-sm (as in the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party), often appeal to the same constituency. Except, that socialist powers never had fashionable uniforms, to appeal to the beer-sloshing unemployed of Europe's poorer parts. So, while throwing Molotov cocktails, they prefer to wear black shirts, rather than waiving red flags.
But, if you look at Greece and France, or at the regular violence at the G8 summits, the left can still burn a few cars and loot a few stores.
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No, of course not. But much of the bile that spews from the mouths of Limbaugh, et al is deliberately misleading, much of it is simply untrue, consciously so, so in that sense, it hardly represents a point of view.
I’m more than willing to consider someone else’s point of view, when it's actually based on reality, however, when that point of view consists of scapegoating minorities and homosexuals for all that ills this country, well, my tolerance for that sort of hateful bullshit has reached its end.
Socialism, like capitalism, (or any form of governance for that matter – with, I think, the exception of Nazism.) can be used as both a tool of good or ill. However, within the US, outside of small, usually collegiate circles, a real socialist movement does not exist. And where they do, they are hardly violent, and do not espouse violence as a tool of protest or an impetus for change.