Merged Is Conservatism the New Communism?

All the perrisologic arguments aside, somebody needs to explain the difference between a few people owning all the property (the direction of the present day) and a few people controlling all the property (communism).

It's going to be a lot harder than some expect.
 
The 'xxx is a mental disorder' for x = conservative or liberal or moderate (I am somewhat uncertain of libertarian here) is nothing more than an attempt to disenfranchise the other side.

Now, so it's clear, Gus Hall was not a liberal of whom we speak, he was a mean old guy who liked to try to cheat the paperboy. Pat Buchanan is not a conservative of whom we speak, he's a control freak who I think has control issues and projects them on everyone else, as well as having fears of supernatural things like demons.

There are mentally ill people on all sides. Sadly, in this day and age in the USA, one side has prevented them from getting treatment unless they're rich. If they're poor, they get sent to some private prison where a rich person makes money off them.
 
Bill Thompson said:
Give it a shot.

If you find the comment "liberalism is a mental disorder" offensive, it must be true. I know of at least one whole book written to back up the argument. Are there books written to counter this idea?

I think an honest and mature person would be wanting to read such a book if he was a liberal. A mind does not work unless it is open.

Having a mental disorder does not make one evil and if someone things you have one, it is not an insult. If you are insulted, you need to check your ego at the door and go to the library and read.

If you find the comment "liberalism is a mental disorder" offensive, it must be true. Seems like a self evident fact already. Sounds somewhat about that ex-cop that went on a rampage because he was found unfit to be a policeman. It is self evident.

Having a mental disorder is not a sign of weakness or evil. Associating mental disorder with something bad is in itself a poor thought process.

Your bowing out of further discussion reminds me a lot of my Liberal cousins. They think they are right in a debate as long as it is a monologue. When someone shows they are wrong, the discussion is over. It is typical and unsuprising.

Oh, and by the way, Michael Savage was once a Liberal. If he can look back on his life and say that he had a thought disorder, it gives further weight to his argument.

The world is comic to those who think and tragic to those who feel. If "liberalism is a mental illness" is offensive and hurtful, then you are not thinking.
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There's certainly a mental disorder going on here, but it is not liberalism.

Divisionism, maybe. However, it's not really the left that's driving that wedge.
 
jj said:
Yeah, I haven't seen anyone calling for an end to private property, except some of the banksters, who only want THEM to have it.
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Brainster is not well read on communism. Give him a Google search worth of time. He'll be back
 
SKEPTICALSHAM said:
I'm thinking about writing a book about this. I have Jonah Goldberg's bull pucky Liberal Fascism book to thank for my inspiration.

Looking at the way modern conservatives preach there philosophy and dismiss contradictory information, its seems very and eerily similar to the dogmatic nature that communism was. There are of course differences to how extreme each philosophy went.
Both Conservatism and Communism have been carried out and put to the test in countries, mainly the Regan Revolution in the United States.
This topic could sure use some discussion.

Topics to discuss on this:
  • Trical down economics and collectivism
  • Lysenkoism- dismissal of every science contradictory to the ideology. (of course conservatives have not called a law banning certain scientific research, except stem cells (that i know of).
  • Soviet Union and Homosexuality (hated gay people)
  • Us vs them mentality, makers and takers/proletarians and bourgeoisie.
  • Justifying torture

any other analogies or similarities?
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Don't forget about the gulags FEMA camps.
 
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