DustyInfinity
Platinum Member
I doubt many progressives want to slide towards China, it is the social democracies of Europe that are the model. It is they that are doing the most for personal online privacy for example.I doubt there is any country on earth that is either capitalist, socialist, or communist. They are all combinations in various proportions. The US certainly has aspects of all three. Whatever your ideology, that is the reality.Just yesterday I noted
"Today’s Democrat Party is closer to Lee Harvey Oswald, than to John F. Kennedy."
I saw a scene where an actor dissed the idea that America was free, and special because it was free. The argument was that there are a hundred or so free countries, so saying we are free isn't special in any way. Personally, I think America's identity of as a place of personal freedom is different than anywhere else in the world. Our constitution did more than any other document to give the individual control over their own lives. We are the standard bearer for freedom in the world, and if we slide further left, into models where the individual is not valued, and becomes forced into collective ideology, who else is going to fight for the individual. The spectrum is the US on one side, and China on the other. Why the progressives want to slide towards China is beyond me.
Okay, lets say the other side of the scale is Europe. Is post #7 Europe?