Don't you think it's a paradox that our economic system is more socialistic than our political system. Agriculture, medicine and even defence research is subsidised by Govt.
On the other hand, it's brute money power that runs our political system. Any political party that has more that 33% of the vote base should be funded and maintained by the State. Also, any politician who had gathered 33% of votes in the previous election should be given campaign funds by the state itself. A cap or ceiling should be put on how much campaign funds should be used in an election. Any left over funds should be put in a trust fund and the intrest from that fund should be used for the day to day maintenance of the party. A 'socialistic political system' will counter balance a 'capitalistic economic system'. A kind of Yin-Yang balance. Let's say a paradigm shift in the way we view the political process itself is necessary for reforms in political finance and campaign finance. --- "raunchydog" <raunchydog@...> wrote: > > > The last sane Republican, President Eisenhower, would not > recognize the Republican party, nowadays, overtaken by > greedy bastards. Paul Ryan plans to replace Medicare with > a voucher system and Romney thinks 47% of Americans are > dependent moochers. What dark and creepy philosophy allows > the Republican party to justify a Libertarian agenda that > would eliminate the social safety net and redistribute > wealth upward to the wealthy? > > I found a test that compares the writings of Ayn Rand, the > Philosopher Queen of Objectivism and Aleister Crowley, the > Beast 666 and prophet of the Age of Horus. It will be > difficult to distinguish the two, but one cannot miss the > heartlessness of these writers. Which of the following > quotes are from Ayn Rand and which are from Alester > Crowley? No fair using Google. Answers are at end of test. > > 1. "What are your masses...but mud to be ground underfoot, > fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?" > > 2. "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer > and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." > > 3. "I am alone. There is no God where I am." > > 4. "The definition of self-respect contains a clause to > include pitiless contempt for some other class." > > 5. "How right politicians are to look upon their > constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of > dealing with any class as such knows the futility of > appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities > than those of brutes." > > 6. "A strong man can eventually trample society under his > feet." > > 7. "You love only those who deserve it" > > 8. "I spit on your crapulous creeds." > > 9. "According to the Christian mythology, he died on the > cross not for his own sins but for the sins of the > non-ideal people. In other words, a man of perfect virtue > was sacrificed for men who are vicious and who are > expected or supposed to accept that sacrifice. If I were a > Christian, nothing could make me more indignant than that: > the notion of sacrificing the ideal to the non-ideal, or > virtue to vice. And it is in the name of that symbol that > men are asked to sacrifice themselves for their > inferiors." > > 10. "We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let > them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is > the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched and the weak: > this is the law of the strong..." > > 11. "Each man must live as an end in himself." > > 12. "The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules" > > 13. "Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and > some have sodomy thrust upon them..." > > 14. "Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for > them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler." > > 15. "What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a > moral duty" > > 16. "Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and > greatness should be waiting for us in our graves or > whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth." > > 17. "All this talk about 'suffering humanity' is > principally drivel based on the error of transferring > one's own psychology to one's neighbour. The Golden Rule > is silly." > > 18. "Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people." > > 19. "I am the creator of a new code of morality... a > morality not based on faith." > > 20. "I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on > awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and > found her a virgin in the morning." > > 21. "The person who loves everybody and feels at home > everywhere is the true hater of mankind." > > 22. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that > perish. > > 1. Rand > 2. Rand > 3. Crowley > 4. Crowley > 5. Crowley > 6. Rand > 7. Rand > 8. Crowley > 9. Rand > 10. Crowley > 11. Rand > 12. Crowley > 13. Crowley > 14. Crowley > 15. Rand > 16. Rand > 17. Crowley > 18. Crowley > 19. Rand > 20. Crowley > 21. Rand > 22. Crowley > > Source: http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com > /2012/09/auntie-ayn-or-uncle-al-take-test.html >
