10-25-2018, 01:54 PM
(10-24-2018, 08:02 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Except for all the communist governments.
And I don’t know if it’s authoritarianism, but things like Canada saying it is an offense to not address a person by their chosen pronoun surely isn’t anti-authoritarian.
This is just one of those things that bothers me. Just because a country claims to be communist doesn't make it so. We really have not seen a communist nation-state. All those that have claimed to be communist have been authoritarian in nature, but by definition the two cannot exist in the same nation. Communism involves a democratic form of governance, which is in direct opposition to authoritarianism. What people perceive as communism is actually just the Soviet model, which was really rooted in Stalin's school of thought (and carried over by Mao) and really isn't communist, or even socialist for that matter.
(10-25-2018, 10:21 AM)GMDino Wrote: Or, while asking for civility, continuing to blame "the media" while taking no blame himself.
Yeah, that was why I don't care what he has to say. I'm just glad he isn't boosting conspiracy theories.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
