You’ve already demeaned my response before it was posted, Frank. “This should be interesting.”
I didn't demean your response with that comment...I merely indicated that your response should be interesting because you know damn near nothing about my stance. I do not share it very often, because Internet contributors are quick to turn off on just about anything...and my stance includes things that piss off as many liberals as piss off conservatives. No use developing as many enemies as needed.
An old debate trick, Frank, very old like yo....lol.
Let's put aside the bullshit of "tricks" and actually have a discussion.
Your political stance, as I see it, is a passionate...almost fanatical support of bloody Socialism.
If you see that, it is because you WANT to see that...and what you see has virtually nothing to do with what my stance actually is.
I am a Wall Streeter! I actually worked on Wall Street...for what was, at the time, the second largest house in the business. I am a capitalist pure and simple...and I am committed to the notion that without "free enterprise"...NOTHING is going to get done worth getting done.
That does not mean we capitalists cannot borrow ideas from socialism...THAT WOULD DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE THE KIND OF CAPITALISM WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY.
We Americans have so perverted the notion...that we might as well be pissing on it. (We can discuss that.)
You do realize (another debate trick) that Capitalism is the goose that has laid the golden egg for more than two centuries.
The last sentence is a declarative, not an interrogatory...another trick.
Lol
Stop with the fucking tricks...and let's have a discussion.
In any case, capitalism is not the goose that has laid the golden egg for more than two centuries...free enterprise is. And it happens that I think both "free enterprise and capitalism" can use a tweak or three here in this country. (They are intimately related, but there are differences. Read up on it if you want, I am not going to discuss it at length.)
If you happen to think our system is perfect as is...fine with me. You think Trump is "America's greatest president"...so I don't necessarily expect deep thinking.
I don’t expect you to acknowledge the freedom and success of free markets and the private ownership of goods and services (Capitalism) that have produced the most free and successful nation on earth.
Aha...is that what you do not expect?
We'll address that at some point...but if you are saying that I am unwilling to acknowledge being wrong when I am wrong...I will trade you post for post of such acknowledgements for big money...which is a bet you should not take unless you have a host of such acknowledgements.
It is a fact though, Frank, no matter how the Socialists try to sell their death and starvation.
Well...one of the most socialistic nations on planet Earth is about to surpass us as the largest, most robust economies, Earl. So perhaps you are over-selling your scorn for socialism.