Iceweasel
Diamond Member
Socialism has been around a long time in various forms. The Pilgrims tried it. The problem is it drives everything down to the lowest common denominator. Why try harder if your lazy neighbor gets the same treatment by mother government?I think it is technology that gives birth to liberal ideas, because it is technology that shifts work off your own survival effort to some 3rd party, such as a machine, or a party that claims ownership of it. This is possible, because technology is not a one to one shifting of labor from man to machine, but more like a thousand to one, and soon no man will have a place left to try his own survival. That is where the liberal wisecracking comes in and you get socialism. Disgraceful.
It's capitalism and the drive to invent, succeed, better yourself, push yourself, make a difference in the world that creates those machines, and yes, libs happily take the credit for any social change that it comes along.