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Originally posted by Not Bob
I can't believe this analogy didn't come to me last night, but whatever.
I would rather live in the semi-socialist parliamentary democracy of Great Britain of 1976 than the free-market dictatorship of Chile of 1976. Give me a lumbering statist economy with the right to call James Wilson a moron as I work on the fickle wiring of my Triumph Spitfire over a free market economic paradise in which my teenaged daughter is raped and killed by the army because her boyfriend wore a Che Guevara t-shirt before the junta took over.
And I'd rather live now in one of the social democrat statist Scandanavian countries than free markert Asian Tiger Singapore. Call me nutty.
I can't believe that people here would so easily trade away the rights of 50% of the population.
Actually, I guess I can believe it. As much as some have tried to hide it, property rights have always been accorded more deference than civil rights by a certain political segement here in the US.
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I certainly don't place property rights above women's rights (and I mean real civil rights), but we don't live in a perfect world.
