Max Cut - your posts are full of zero content purely off topic disapprobation. Could you be a more boring person if you tried? I've never used the term "intellectual geriatric" but I'm minting it just for you. Zero content, zero curiosity, just bigotry and disdain.
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Originally Posted by theviolator
So I'm in Canada and seen wealth destruction first hand as a number of my assets were on Canadian traded exchanges and we are the laughing stock of the world since the leftist Trudeau government came into power. We literally had our energy minister laughed out of an Energy conference in Houston today despite having the 4th largest reserves of petroleum in the world. Noone wants to invest a penny in Canada now due to our polices. Look at TSX performance relative to the S&P since 2016 for all the proof you need.
Yeah. It's interesting seeing the mess made in France by these kinds of policies, and the humiliating backtrack the leftists had to do. The French wealth supertax was a
spectacular failure that the socialists had to unwind. The American experience wouldn't be any different. And while it's unlikely the more extreme stuff would pass I don't think it's as unlikely as people think. The left has gone full deranged fundamentalist and the history of full deranged fundamentalists getting what they want with a youthful groundswell is disturbingly high.
On a deeper level, left wing ideas are so incredibly destructive to societies and toxic to the poor. If you tell someone that he's in the position he's in because he's being oppressed, absolutely nothing good comes from it. Externalizing a person's locus of control is an evil thing when you combine it with claimed grievances. It's antithetical to the quiet conscientious initiative that leads to personal and community success, for example of the kind enjoyed by Asian immigrant communities, many of whom were way more oppressed by the system than anyone in America today.
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