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Originally Posted by August

It's not a knee jerk to the extreme end, it is the direction that we are heading.

Look at how much the federal government has expanded in the last 100 years. How much more the government controls the lives of it's citizens. Do you think that trend will ever stop? I don't see how short of tearing it down and starting over.

Socialism is just a slippery and irreversible slope to totalitarianism. It is the nature of bureaucracies. The longer they exist the more power they draw to themselves until words like Freedom and Liberty become hollow catch phrases.

Ya speaking of tearing it down. The 'withering away of the state' is a Marxist concept coined by Friedrich Engels referring to the idea that, with the realization of socialism, the state will eventually become obsolete and cease to exist as society will be able to govern itself without the state and its coercive enforcement of the law.

This means only one of two things a. he was lying his ass off as all totalitarians do, or b. when socialism a.k.a. the corporate state and coercive laws withers away you are left with what you began with the private individual in charge of the means of production, and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and a.k.a. Capitalism.


But it is concerning the direction I think we seem to be heading. Especially when our current leader has done what was once unthinkable and overstepped without any repercussions after accusing an entire of group of good people right wing extremists and publicly stated he is making it a point to jail a political opponent so he can’t run for office. That should be concerning to everyone Democrat and Republican alike. Not to mention all the Burisma Biden Bribery whistleblowers are now dead too.