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Originally Posted by Eric
What burns my ass about this is that it gives good ideas a bad name ... takes a good idea like civil rights (well outlined and defined in the US Civil Rights Act, 1964) and ruins the goddam thing by taking it to ridiculous extremes. I care about the environment ... why not, it's where I live ... but I'm not a tree hugger. I'm opposed to capital punishment, not because of any concern about the human rights of murderers and assorted scum, but because it doesn't work ... in the sense that it ain't a deterrent. If it were, there wouldn't have been over 12,000 hand gun homicides in the US last year. One can hold progressive ideas and not be a politically correct idiot. What I see as PCism is the ridiculous response to the picture of that dead kid being washed ashore. Sad, yes; but it's just one dead kid out of thousands who die every day in this sad, [deleted] up world of ours. And most of those thousands died suffering from disease, starvation, genocide, as child soldiers ... you know the picture. PCers focus on the one, because it's dramatic and makes good news on CNN. The others are left forgotten, suffering in silence. I think it's time to stop ranting.
The danger that I see from Corbyn is that he will taint good ideas ... let's lump them together and call them "socialism" ... with his warm fuzzy ideas. But it would still, I believe, be wrong to write him off so soon after his election.
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Cracking post mate.
True socialism is about common sense and the common good...something that the 'alleged socialist' mainstream Labour party has forgotten. The word 'social' loosely means people working/sharing for the common good. The strong look after the weak, the young care for the old and all the other cliches that people like our Labour MP has forgotten in his attempted rise to power by forcing his colleagues, under threat of deselection, to vote for party rather than conscience.
Yeah, Corbyn has nutjob ideas...then again so does Cameron...Corbyn has a nutjob Shadow agricultural minister..Cameron gives you..Ian Duncan Smith (murderer of the sick and infirm), Michael Gove (Screwed up the school system and is now happily screwing up the justice system), George Osborne (a failed journalist let loose with the finances of the country and despite warnings from learned economists is barreling on with his version of austerity which screws us plebs whilst allowing his rich mates and their companies immunity), Theresa May (a home secretary who has done more stupid U turns than I see at Dill Hall lights)
Point is Corbyn has his faults...he has some crazy ideas and he is far too PC for my liking, but he is a valid alternative. And unlike people like our MP he would not throw his toys out of the pram if things didn't go his way, nor would he deselect party members for having an alternative view to his own...he actually believes in democracy