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Where's a Senator Joseph McCarthy when you need him? There are [pick a number] of Communists in Congress. He denounced the whole Democratic party as traitors. Now, he's a joke.Once upon a time the cognoscenti were proud to tell all that they were communists! Proud to be on the cutting edge of societal thought, clearly ahead of everyone else. But once the horrendous nature of the ideology became apparent, it was no longer possible to wear that badge.
Then, they were liberals, then progressives whatever incarnation served, until its predilections became known.
Now, the rebirth of the thinking that we, the proletariat, the bourgeois, must be deprived of our lives and our liberties.
The new title is Communitarian, and the new bumper sticker is social justice, and nowhere is it more evident than in the healthcare debate.
Read their own self-description, and recognize the political babble of the 1950s American Communists:
Communitarianism emerged in the 1980s as a response to the limits of liberal theory and practice. Its dominant themes are that individual rights need to be balanced with social responsibilities, and that autonomous selves do not exist in isolation, but are shaped by the values and culture of communities The critique of one-sided emphasis on rights has been key to defining communitarianism "Rights talk" thus corrupts our political discourse, and is used to trump genuine conversation, public deliberation, and practical compromise rights need to be seen in a more balanced framework, and that the U.S. would benefit by a temporary moratorium on the manufacture of new rights.
While a few communitarians have developed refined institutional analyses to match their critiquesone thinks of liberal-communitarian Ezekiel Emanuel's very interesting proposals on health care
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Another key administration figure is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy advisor in the Office of Management and Budget and brother of Rahm Emanuel, self-described 'communitarian, the president's chief of staff is one of those responsible for inserting into the healthcare bill the ideas that we no longer should have rights, such as determining what care we can buy, or how long we should live, and doctors should no longer look to the Hippocratic Oath, and the particular patient, but neglect the patient in the interests of social justice, and the society as a whole.
The shocking element is that, in the words of Democat former Colorodo Governor Dick Lamb, "the elderly have a patriotic duty to die."
I note that you are following the (apocryphal) Liberal Protocols, as ratified by Saul Alinsky, and have obeyed the directions of rule six:
"6. Claim to misunderstand, obfuscate, deflect and change the subject, and, if all else fails, allege that you misspoke."
Although not full credit, you deserve at least partial credit as per rule Nine:
"9. Remember, as a liberal, you never have to apologize, be accurate, nor have any knowledge. No matter how many times your talking points are shown to be wrong, continue to repeat them. "
But I was wondering, other than abject ignorance, was there some other reason that you did not comment in any substantive way on the points made in the posts?
Allow me to play Mycroft Holmes, and hypothesize that you received what is referred to as a public school 'education' and internalized the knee-jerk response to the work "communism.'
Prior to today, were you familiar with "Communitarianism"?
Do you agree with Democrat former-governor Dick Lamb?
Have you made yourself familiar with the various authors and the aspects of the Waxman-Markey bills or the Kennedy bills?
Do you realize that if unfamiliar with all of the above, you opinion is worth less than nothing?
If I have embarrassed you, you need not respond to this post.