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oldcynic

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8. get off your high horse

Reply to CitizenZero (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 2, 2017, 03:57 PM

Apr 2017

Purity is not a test of anything except lack of experience. The fault of communism was that it can't figure out how to get rid of it's leaders. The fault of capitalism is that it cannot control it's oligarchs. A modernized form of Socialism is most compatible with democracy. And democracy, as is evident, is a broad spectrum syndrome.

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