What do you think of our new name? The USSA.

@JimboUk We do have some news anchors over here from the UK, who are appalled at the current leaning toward socialism here. They say that the economy in the UK was quite mucked about by socialist trends.

Socialism in my opinion is used to subert and undermine capitalism. Socialism history is full of failure, searching for a idealistic etopia they will never find. How many times must Socialism fail until people come up with a better idea? This is what baffle's me. The British system is clearly more socialist then America. We have Health care which is free at the point of use at the cost of the tax payer, open door immigration the size of a town a year which only adds to the stress on the NHS. The list is too long but know your anchor man is right lol

@JimboUk Yup, he is right. The socialists here seem to be completely unaware that nothing is free, and that someone has to pay for their freebies.

@4meAndyou That someone being you and I 🙄

@JimboUk And was known long before Marx - de Tocqueville wrote "Socialism and Democracy cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is just a new form of Slavery."

or...

...while Democracy seeks equality in liberty, Socialism seeks equality
in restraint and servitude."

That seems rather clear.

@Abrienda Noam Chomsky "working people have to be in charge of production" it sounds simple yet socialism takes power away from the people (the individual) and gives it to a selective few. Capitalism in-powers the individual like no other system ever has.

@JimboUk Clearly. That's why totalitarian personality types hate Capitalism and are Socialists, about whom my father said were only Communists without the courage of their convictions.

@Abrienda I agree completely with your father's conclusion. At least the people that came before didn't have all this history to learn from.

@JimboUk Yes but unlike the drones of today they did not have an oppressive media that molded their minds and instead relied on traditional truths and common sense of things to figure out the correct and best way the world worked.

@Abrienda you and I are like two pee's in a pot darling. Your practically over there reading my mind. The media is like a cancer in society that has grown too big.

I only saw it recently...but now it is too clear. And the result is they are creating a world of mental and emotional children the better to sell their useless consumer garbage and garbage ideas to. For example...in 1939 how many major box office-successful movies were made from comic books? In 2017 how many were NOT?

A dumbed Down Society is easy to manipulate and control. Same reason they have broken up communities and families. The media are a great example, sideline Hollywood for a second. How many times are you told breaking news, and given a 30 second segment? Its to condition people to focus less on the details and more on Breaking news headlines. Its all part of the dumbing down process and the same goes for comic book movies instead of thought provoking stories. Most kids these days look up to a baseball player or a footballer, with lower IQ then themselves lol our parents generation grew up listening to philosophes or poets.

Ummm....I wonder if making people live life so vicariously also is part of it. We have so many people who live through others, a footballer or Kim Kardashian, or by loving or hating whom the Orwellian media tells them to hate (Pres. Trump) or love whom they tell you to love (Oprah Winfrey before she tries to get another Swiss handbag salesgirl fired)