US Democrats are to the Left of Communists

[Flopper]

well, the chinese are definately not going to legalize gay marriage.......

And neither is Mississippi.

 

[Chris]

The Democratic Party has become the Republican Party, and the Republican Party has become the John Birch Society.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Clearly, both the ChiComs and the Communist Vietnamese recognize that the heavy hand of the state leads to poverty and misery.

 

[Chris]

Clearly, both the ChiComs and the Communist Vietnamese recognize that the heavy hand of the state leads to poverty and misery.

The misery of socialism....

 

[kiwiman127]

The new left or the modern progressive socialists just want to have their cake and eat it at any cost.

They couldn't give a fuck about anything just as long as they get something for nothing and they demand their government give it to them...

There will always be evil people who will pander to the lazy and stupid as long as the lazy and stupid put them in power..

I would assert they're authoritarian Marxists who want a socialist economic model..

 

[editec]

US Democrats are to the Left of Communists

Snore!

 

[Sallow]

The Democratic Party has become the Republican Party, and the Republican Party has become the John Birch Society.

Spot on. Except the Birchers recently admitted that Obama slightly reduced the deficit. The Tea Party would never make such a claim.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

The Chinese today are no more Communists, than Republicans are believers in a republic.

what a dipshit ignoraemous comment......the Commies still rule Red China with an iron fist......and they not losing their grip in the slightest....although it may appear that way to ignorant libs who like to gush over communists who adopt a market mentality...

The politburo today allows private enterprise because the old style of state-run business was a complete flop...take heed Dimwits....going toward a free market has yielded great economic success in China and there is a growing middle class that is reaping the benefits.....but their freedom is still very limited politically......

the Communist Party centrally controls everything from the internet to the military, from the courts to government and educational appointments, and they also place loyal Party members into all key positions in every significant economic and social organization (religion is limited) that exists....that includes those "free market" companies.....

you are allowed to make your moolah and buy your goodies....however don't cross the Party in Red China......labor camps still exist.....

....how quickly liberals forget Tiananmen Square....

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Hard to face, but the topic is how Communists embrace of free market, lifting the state hand off the throat of commerce has lead to prosperity; something Dems either don't understand or are intentionally sabotaging the US economy

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Vietnam was importing a million tons of rice a year. Last year it became the world's second leading rice exporter. "Same people, same land," Vietnam's director of crop production, Dr. Nguyen Tri Ngoc, told me in his Hanoi office, speaking through a translator. "Before, farmers were not really farmers. They were workers in the fields, and they worked under the supervision of the government." And the difference now? "Free markets!" he says in English."

Read it again.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Hard to face, but the topic is how Communists embrace of free market, lifting the state hand off the throat of commerce has lead to prosperity; something Dems either don't understand or are intentionally sabotaging the US economy

the better to hijack our political system...

 

[California Girl]

and the way chinese treat their women is definately closer to republicans.......

"Their women"? We are not property. That you use that phrase demonstrates what a misogynistic little shit you are.

Moron.

Oh, and don't use words you cannot spell. It's definitely, not definately. If you would speak properly, you would write properly.

Bigger moron.

 

[Dragon]

The Chinese today are no more Communists, than Republicans are believers in a republic.

the Commies still rule Red China with an iron fist....[snip]
....how quickly liberals forget Tiananmen Square....

I didn't say the Chinese had become democrats (small d) or that they had stopped being authoritarian tyrants. I said they were not Communists.

Perhaps you don't understand that distinction.

 

[Katzndogz]

The Chinese don't "treat" their women in any way differently than they treat anyone else. Living in the past, and being ignorant, today's liberals believe Chinese women still have their feet bound.

China has fully embraced free market capitalism which puts them leagues ahead of American leftists.

 

[Dragon]

Hard to face, but the topic is how Communists embrace of free market, lifting the state hand off the throat of commerce has lead to prosperity; something Dems either don't understand or are intentionally sabotaging the US economy

When your starting point is top-down, authoritarian, centrally-planned socialism, a move towards freer markets is a good thing.

When your starting point is plutocratic, capitalist-dominated, corrupt, and out-of-control manipulation by bankers, a move towards more regulation is a good thing.

Extremes are bad.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Hard to face, but the topic is how Communists embrace of free market, lifting the state hand off the throat of commerce has lead to prosperity; something Dems either don't understand or are intentionally sabotaging the US economy

When your starting point is top-down, authoritarian, centrally-planned socialism, a move towards freer markets is a good thing.

When your starting point is plutocratic, capitalist-dominated, corrupt, and out-of-control manipulation by bankers, a move towards more regulation is a good thing.

Extremes are bad.

Hows that working out for us? FinReg? ObamaCare?

 

[ScreamingEagle]

The Chinese today are no more Communists, than Republicans are believers in a republic.

the Commies still rule Red China with an iron fist....[snip]
....how quickly liberals forget Tiananmen Square....

I didn't say the Chinese had become democrats (small d) or that they had stopped being authoritarian tyrants. I said they were not Communists.

Perhaps you don't understand that distinction.

If you can slam Republicans as not being believers in a republic.....then i can slam your equally idiotic claim that the Chinese today are not Communists.....

Market-Leninism is still Communism...

 

[Dragon]

If you can slam Republicans as not being believers in a republic.....then i can slam your equally idiotic claim that the Chinese today are not Communists.....

While you may think that fair on a tit-for-tat basis, it has no basis in fact, where what I said does. Republicans do not believe in a republic, they believe in a plutocracy in which an oligarchy of rich people run everything. The Chinese, however, are no longer Communists.

Market-Leninism is still Communism...

"Market-Leninism" is an oxymoron.

Look, the title of this thread was obviously not referring to the totalitarian aspects of Communism but to its economically egalitarian aspects. That egalitarianism is what Communism is about. If you don't have that, you don't have Communism.

The Chinese are not Communists. They were once, when Mao was alive. But no more.

 

[Dragon]

Hows that working out for us?

Impossible to say until we actually try it. It worked out very well in the post-WWII decades. Moving to the right economically has brought us where we are now. So there's good precedent.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

If you can slam Republicans as not being believers in a republic.....then i can slam your equally idiotic claim that the Chinese today are not Communists.....

While you may think that fair on a tit-for-tat basis, it has no basis in fact, where what I said does. Republicans do not believe in a republic, they believe in a plutocracy in which an oligarchy of rich people run everything. The Chinese, however, are no longer Communists.

Market-Leninism is still Communism...

"Market-Leninism" is an oxymoron.

Look, the title of this thread was obviously not referring to the totalitarian aspects of Communism but to its economically egalitarian aspects. That egalitarianism is what Communism is about. If you don't have that, you don't have Communism.

The Chinese are not Communists. They were once, when Mao was alive. But no more.

maybe RINO Republicans don't believe in a republic.....but tea party republicans support the Constitution....

economic egalitarianism may lead to a logical conclusion they are no longer "communist"...but this is a false assumption...unless we are strictly looking at economics....communism is more than just economics....it is also social and political...

"economic egalitarianism" in Red China today certainly does not equate to any decentralization of power...Party control is still strong....the totalitarian single-party communist State lives on....Lenin would be proud...