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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
socialism leads to communism. It's inevitable. government censorship must be utilized in order to hide the many negatives of socialism. It will eventually lead to an erosion of civil rights....much like most of England already has.
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I don't even know where to start with this. There's SO much wrong with this statement.
First of all, you're confusing Communism with Fascism. Socialism is an economic system. Communism is a political system. Fascism is a control system. I know in conservativeland all apparently-bad things are linked together and arise simultaneously and as mutual causes of each other, but in reality they're not interchangeable. The most aggressively censoring government the world has ever known wasn't Socialist or Communist at all, despite the name "National Socialist Party". The Nazis had a more brutal clamp-down on the media than even Soviet Russia had.
I also dispute your assertion that "socialism leads to communism". First of all, the evil of Communism isn't at all self-evident, despite what McCarthy had to say about it. Second, there are LOTS of countries in the world with Socialist-leaning agendas both economically and socially. The vast majority of them are very successful Democracies.
Finally: if you're really that worried about civil rights, go demand the impeachment of your current President. He's done more to destroy civil rights than any leader in American history, and more than most leaders in the history of the world.