The other side had the 20th century with its ideas...
mass murder, enslavement and poverty resulted from those ideas. Only someone who is horribly historically ignorant or driven by other, hidden urges (e.g. from others and to themselves, see below) could look at marxist/socialist policies and not understand that they are a siren song and have been proven to fail every single time.
Further, do you not realize that your comment about people wanting to help one another is green eyed socialism is a perfect example of you committing the very sin that you accuse others of. For starters, conservatives are more generous with their time and money. Advocating taking people's property (e.g. money) and spending it how you think someone with compassion would spend it...is not 'wanting to help one another' but in fact is 'robbing someone of their property to give to another...because it makes me feel super self righteous to believe this and make comments about my goodness.' The other option is that they truly are authoritarian in their nature and want to dominate others.
That's leaving aside the uber right wing comment...which in and of itself is extremely biased and not even an accurate description of US conservatives since the US Founding was strictly classically liberal...and US Conservatives are actually classically liberal in their beliefs (which is why political groups in other countries who most closely align in ideology to the US conservatives...are typically called 'liberal' while those that align with the US left or liberals/progressives...are typically called socialist, communist, progressive, fascist, corporatist, etc).
This post was edited on 3/18 5:53 PM by southland
