Brain357
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You are a busy trump troll.Nice little post. It always seem I have the most difficulty with minor point early in your posts. I don't think truth and freedom are major themes of the right or left, at the moment. Sometime you should do one supporting a position of a logical thought directed at people who absolute distrust both the right and the left. I never lost anything by not trusting anybody in sight.1.Freedom, liberty, is intimately associated with ownership, private property.
The prophets…(pun intended) of the Left, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx demand the abolishment of private property….that is the cornerstone of communism, socialism, Progressivism, Leftism.
And the majority of the Democrat Party bought this like it was on sale.
Two values absent from Leftism are truth, and freedom.
Every one of these…communism, socialism, Liberalism, Progressivism, Fascism and Nazism….have one of these three as the final phase for society: serfs, slaves, or corpses.
2. Marxism rested on the assumption that the condition of the working classes would grow ever worse under capitalism, that there would be but two classes: one small and rich, the other vast and increasingly impoverished, and revolution would be the anodyne that would result in the “common good.” But by the early 20th century, it was clear that this assumption was completely wrong! Under capitalism, the standard of living of all was improving: prices falling, incomes rising, health and sanitation improving, lengthening of life spans, diets becoming more varied, the new jobs created in industry paid more than most could make in agriculture, housing improved, and middle class industrialists and business owners displaced nobility and gentry as heroes.
These economic advances continued throughout the period of the rise of socialist ideology. The poor didn’t get poorer because the rich were getting richer (a familiar socialist refrain even today) as the socialists had predicted. Instead, the underlying reality was that capitalism had created the first societies in history in which living standards were rising in all sectors of society.
From a speech by Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
Delivered at Hillsdale College, October 27, 2006
3. “…"the most important graph in the world." The numbers along the X-axis are years. Two thousand of them. The numbers on the Y-axis are dollars. All of them, divided by the number of people on the planet. It’s what’s called GDP per capita, which is the world’s economic output divided by its population. GDP is considered the best measurement of a country's standard of living and, in this case, the world’s standard of living.”
The Market Will Set You Free
4. Capitalism:
“The results were inescapable: nearly everywhere on the planet men and women lived longer, ate better, enjoyed more leisure, and had access to resources and delights that previously had been reserved for the very rich and powerful, or more commonly, had been utterly unknown.” Joel Mokyr, “A Culture of Growth: Origins of the Modern Economy” http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10835.pdf
How's this for a plan: you do what you like, I do what I like.