socialism vs capitalism

[Joseph Tracy]

The think tanks have been busy beavers generating disgusted animosity for liberals carefully grading into spiteful outrage and hate for socialists(Repeat after me: "Obama is a socialist" Socialists are dirty people who want to to rob you blind just so you can have a good education and health care and  clean air and shit) . But oops they forgot to teach the good folk to hate progressives. This could be a poser. It's' hard to say the word progressive in a real hateful way. Seriously, try it.  Now the progressives I know are about 70% socialists and maybe 15 % aggressive liberals and 15%  organic gardening libertarians. So the general public having not been properly trained in this regard  are inclined to love the thing they hate. Many have long since thoroughly adjusted to this state of affairs. 
What is even weirder is that the only one of these words is frequently used in the Bible and always in the most positive way. That word is Liberal. The good lord apparently just loves the shit outa liberals. And to think the Christians , who apparently haven't cracked a concordance for awhile , are just plain missing out. So when the rapture comes , maybe Thursday late afternoon, Look for a lot of Hondas and Priuses rising to meet him  in the air.  I'm gonna stay here and wait for a progressive landslide. 
PROVERBS 11 
25 The LIBERAL soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
On Jan 1, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Ian Livingston wrote:

> I notice that the positive and negative responses to the various terms
> in the survey are specifically to the words themselves, suggesting
> that each of the terms are especially loaded. It might be an equally
> revealing survey to somehow ferret out people's reactions to the ideas
> involved within each term without the use of the loaded term. For
> instance, "Do you have a positive or negative reaction to the idea of
> government use of tax dollars for highway repair?" and so on.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>> can you find the three groups that have a more favorable view toward
>> socialism than capitalism?
>> 
>> http://www.people-press.org/2011/12/28/little-change-in-publics-response-to-capitalism-socialism/?src=prc-headline
> 
> 
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> -- 
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant