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Originally Posted by Ustwo
.....Do they support terrorists because there is some advantage to global socialism?
There has to be a bigger reason out there, an explanation. How can almost no one on the left support a nation with rights for women, gays, and minorities, over people who deny rights for all three groups. Is it simply because the US supports Israel and supplies their military? Is their support of what amounts to barbarians by 20th century mind sets (though they are quite enlightened for the 8th century) just a natural extension of their vilification of all things American, and especially all things American under Bush?
I really do with I had an answer to this question, because if I did, I think I'd understand the motivation of a socialist better.
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IMO, you're trolling, you're labeling, you're attempting to discredit those who disagree with you.....instead of replying to their arguments.
For others who "window shop" the "storefronts" that are all of our posts here on TFP Politics:
It is possible to disagree with the idea that Israel is "on the side of right", and that it's adversaries are "on the side of wrong, darkness, evil, or whatever..." and still support the right of Israel to exist, and to defend itself, but just not to the degree that it has done so in it's projection of armed force, on two fronts, this summer.
It is possible to say that POTUS George Bush is a "war criminal", who is not capable or qualified to hold the office that he occupies, and is not credible or competent, and that he leads a political party that is rife with corruption and beholden to special interests, on the federal level, <b>without being "un-American", or a "socialist".</b>
This "tug of war" we display on TFP, is a disagreement between those who seek their information from a broad, more open, worldwide array of sources; those who question authority, more often then not; versus those who seem to trust most of what authority relates to them, and seek their information from a smaller group of sources whom they trust and seldom seem to crosscheck.
Regarding the major issues of this new century that the U.S. and it's people find themselves immersed in, and challenged by, one need only observe who has held opinions and made predictions on issues ranging from the "progress" of the war in Iraq, the U.S. administration's efforts to advance peace in the middle east, and it's progress in it's "war on terror", to discern who is more often correct about how these events "unfold", and who isn't.
If correctly perceiving what is happening, what the agenda of the elected officials is, vs. what they tell us it is, and whether we are safer, freer, wealthier, healthier....or not....whether we experience more transparent and more responsive government, or less.....what is "news", and what is politcal or corporate propaganda, or isn't.....is what a "socialist" or a "lefty" is..... I'll take the satisfaction of appraising things more accurately and more often, even it means having a label or disparaging description draped over me by those who are reduced to making such pronouncements, in lieu of an argument of substance!