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Clint Eastwood has had an amazing career as an actor, director, and producer. People fall over themselves to work with him. Rock-solid conservative his whole life. John Wayne? Jimmy Stewart? The myth that Hollywood is nothing but liberals is old and wrong.

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Communism is the political and economic situation where the workers and peasants own all the means of production and distribution. With equal sharing of work and resources, the need for the State withers away.

This works on very small scales, like a farming village where everyone shares, but has never worked on a larger scale.

Perhaps you really mean Socialism? That's where the state owns all the means of production and distribution and controls all wages and prices. That has been tried, and failed miserably.

But I'm curious, can you show me where Hilary Clinton advocated complete government ownership of all private industry?

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The Constitution of the United States is one of the most liberal documents ever written. It denied the idea of governmental power coming from God and instead starts with "We The People" and proceeds to hand power to the great unwashed.

In 1789 the conservatives were settling down in British Canada and singing the praises of Mad King George.

Social Security is a fun that we all pay into and take from when we reach 65, or as in my case, are judged to be too disabled to work. I guess you'd be happier with the elderly and disabled starving the streets?

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Ironically, all she needs to do is be a 'conservative' woman with horrible thought streams and she will get half a million followers.

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You fought Betty White and lived?

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According to Snopes, he registered as a Democrat in 2006.

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Ah, but all America hates V&T now, loves BW.

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She wasn't bad as long as someone gave her words to say but she kinda goes off the rails when she tries to say words that she puts together herself.

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And, my guess is, good at head too.

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I'm guessing you are either unsuccessful in your pursuits or have very poor self esteem to use such childish name calling to strangers with whom you disagree. Sad.

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That's not really correct. The Soviet Union, China, and North Korea would be examples of Communism and the first thing a communist regime does is take weapons from it's citizens.

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No but at the same time I do not want some government entity picking my pocket to give to someone else at it's sole discretion. We have numerous private organizations as well as family friends etc. that can do that. But even the disabled and I use that term loosely, are able to produce..

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Ah, no. Communism has a definition. If we all lived in a small village where everyone worked and shared what they had with no money, that'd be communism.

The states you mention are socialist. Or at least they were, only the DPRK still really qualifies. State-run industries and stores, with state-controlled economies. They might have been run by communist parties, but even they admitted that true communism was always just out of reach.

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Cool. I need 12,000 bucks for the oral surgery I need. Medicare doesn't cover it. Please name these private organizations that will give me the money.

My family? My mom is retired from a career taking care of the developmentally disabled. State pensions barely pay the bills. The rest of my extended family is either dead or not well off.

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She's their professional "black friend".

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"Whiny/diva/difficult to work with" will also ensure that those opportunities are few for all but the most stellar talents. (Which Ms. Dash is definitely not.)

So much easier to blame the liberals for CONSPIRACIES than face up to the consequences of one's personal behavior.

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