Originally posted by educatedfilm (Ali)
What's wrong with socialism?

Nothing is wrong with socialism. In any corrupt society socialism is necessary in order to maintain order and reduce the disparity between the rich and the poor. This is why the west has slowly been sliding into it for the last 50 years.

Imagine a group of people living in shacks right across the street from a group of people with nice houses and sports cars. (this is a big problem in Latin America) The people on the rich side of the street come driving up in their $60,000 cars and disappear behind their gates and armed guards. Now what do the people on the poor side of the street feel? Hatred and jealousy.

In a society like this, a strong government and socialistic laws are required to make sure that the poor don't become too poor. The government could care less about helping the people out of their poverty. The government just wants to make sure that they are complacent and have enough to exist on. Because what happens if they don't? Revolution, of course.

Now in a society that has honest, moral, caring citizens, the guy that has the nice house and cars would look across the street at the poor and think, "Gosh, this isn't right. I should really go over there and help him." He would do whatever it took to help the other guy out, and nobody would need a strong government or socialsim. Capitalism would work just fine.

So how did we get to where we are now? The education system. Just like Mr. Twobone says, we're raised and taught to work hard for all our material things and not to give a rip about the next guy as long as we get ahead. As I said before, if you want to destroy a nation, you do it through the children. If you take away the moral basis for education, eventually no governement will be able to protect us from ourselves.