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@evancarroll are drawn to these freakish leaders because they had a professor in college that taught them how intellectually superior it is to think that communism not only works, but that 'the people' actually thrive under it. Forget the reality of equality of outcomes and the amount of force you must exert on a populous in order to achieve it, it just sounds so humane and awesome. Take communism and stick it in a dress and you have liberalism.Yay! Look how smart we are as free-thinking liberals! Corporations are bad, tax and spend until we're all in the rice paddies. We'll all be equal and we can pat ourselves on the back for being so damn smart!Of course, we brilliant few that will help liberate the unwashed masses from their capitalist oppressors are far too important to work in the factories; we should get nice cloistered positions in academia or in the government, like the good party members we are. When we said ther rich need to pay for exploiting the poor, we meant other people, not us. Not right-thinking, I mean smart-thinking party members. We use our income for enlightened things like hybrids and books on Hugo Chavez and Che Guevara t-shirts.Dear Liberals, there can be no utopia. It's a sad, deranged dream that has been hijacked by people who want to do nothing more than secure as much power for themselves as possible. Socialism/communism only works when the collective is small enough that all of the members feel some sort of responsibility to every other member, and small enough that no one is insulated from societal repurcussions if they shirk that responsibility. It worked for the early Christians. They were outright communists. They shared everything according to need.The problem happens when a group becomes large enough that sub-groups can form. This is when you start having people realize that their effort has no bearing on their quality of life, which naturally leads a lot of people to say to themselves, "well crap, if I get the same thing no matter how hard I work, I'm gonna sit here on my *** for a while." The average person will succumb to this, no matter how hard of a worker they may be, and when the group is large enough that these people have no interaction with the producing members of the group, society's reaction of "hey lazy****, why are you sitting around while I work?" is gone. And where it still occurs, it is from a distance and has no personal meaning to the person who no longer produces.You can argue until you're blue in the face that Romney is stupid, Republicans are protecting the rich, or whatever the criticism of non-liberal politicians of the day. The fact remains that the conservative/libertarian philosophy respects and honors the individual and his (or her) free will and dignity as a human being, while liberalism seeks to tear down the individual and assign them to one "victim group" or another based on skin color, gender, etc, and then purport to be championing their cause, all the while stealing their free-will and dignity, leaving them poor helpless souls in need of government to serve as mommy, daddy, and God over their lives. It's racist, sexist, and every other -ist that it pretends to be against.And that is why you want to use "stupid" politicians as a subterfuge rather than debate the merits of a political philosophy. Hooray for you. 4951