Originally posted by: Duwelon
Originally posted by: eskimospy
Originally posted by: Duwelon
Ignorance is bliss eh? You're so hung up on the word and can't see the forest for the trees.
Socialist policies and leanings don't instantly turn a capitalist state into a socialist or communist state. Just because Obama isn't calling for a full on socialist make-over of the US doesn't mean he doesn't have socialist leanings. It's a slippery slope as proven by the New Deal and the awful floodgates of social programs that have opened afterword which have solved absolutely nothing.
Ahh the good old slippery slope fallacy. Thanks for that one, it is in no way proven by the New Deal, because the US is not socialist. Every corporate tax break does not send us on the road to fascism, and neither does every progressive tax change send us on the road to socialism and communism. Stop being blinded by ideology, and try to understand the world for what it is, you'll thank yourself later.
To say the programs have solved absolutely nothing flies in the face of objective evidence to the contrary in terms of poverty rates, etc. You have been shown this before, but you continue to revel in your ignorance because reality conflicts with your ideology. It's time for you to wake up.
"While the general form of the argument involving a slippery slope is not valid, the conclusion it leads to is not necessarily wrong."
I can do this all day with you.