Strident politics

[Archaea]

Socialists, through the eyes of capitalists, are envious, and hateful of the successes of capitalism, which they call excesses. They point to poverty, yet none of their leaders are poor pointing to patent hypocrisy.

All of us are subject to the possibilities, as even myself, as ardent a capitalist as there may be, am upset at pump prices, and apparent price gouging. One of the reasons, cartels and monopolies are anti-capitalistic. Thus the market doesn't really work in the oil industry, but that's an aside.

So socialists desire to right the world with the means of others, and desire to harm those whom they view as having too much or as harming others through deprivation. Depending upon which side of the equation one falls, one will justify one's position as being the righteous position, when it is possible there is no righteousness at all, only money and power.

[Ma'ake]

Originally Posted by Archaea

All of us are subject to the possibilities, as even myself, as ardent a capitalist as there may be, am upset at pump prices, and apparent price gouging.

I have no problem with the price gouging, with the exorbitant price of oil & auto fuels. Yeah, it is very tough, disproportionately on the poor, but something has to send home the message that we have to change.

We can only hope that high prices will shock the American public into wiser uses of energy, ie, slowing down (save $$, increase safety & cut pollution) and lessen our penchant for hauling excessive tonnage of steel, plastic & rubber around unnecessarily.