Originally Posted by Charlatan

Host... you really have done your research, and it's pretty clear you have a lot of passion for the subjects in which you engage. I have to wonder if your approach isn't one that makes your interlocutors feel just a little stupid and belittled. I wonder if you were to take another approach of engagement with other members of this board that you wouldn't get a better response.

If you were to have a look at my post I was making a comment that doesn't even come close to touching on the subject you have expounded upon above. I was simply trying to point out that socialism per se is not the answer, nor is a free market system.

You see, I might actually agree with you, but the way in which you have presented your position immediately suggests (to me in any case) a level of accusation and anger that does nothing to win me over to your position (and I will repeat that I am not entirely in disagreement with your position to start with).

I've said it before and I am determined to say it again until you hear me... you really need to take another approach to how you engage with people. You are not going to win people over to your way of thinking if you continue to do engage in the way you are.