Gusset and pals at a Corbyn rally.

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I think the problem is that people take it to mean "jedem bloß nach seinen Bedürfnissen".

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Read this in the NYT and thought of this thread:

What are these zombies of which I speak? Among wonks, the term refers to policy ideas that should have been abandoned long ago in the face of evidence and experience, but just keep shambling along.

The right’s zombie-in-chief is the insistence that low taxes on the rich are the key to prosperity. This doctrine should have died when Bill Clinton’s tax hike failed to cause the predicted recession and was followed instead by an economic boom. It should have died again when George W. Bush’s tax cuts were followed by lackluster growth, then a crash. And it should have died yet again in the aftermath of the 2013 Obama tax hike — partly expiration of some Bush tax cuts, partly new taxes to pay for Obamacare — when the economy continued jogging along, adding 200,000 jobs a month.

Despite the consistent wrongness of their predictions, however, tax-cut fanatics just kept gaining influence in the G.O.P. — until the disaster in Kansas, where Gov. Sam Brownback promised that deep tax cuts would yield an economic miracle. What the state got instead was weak growth and a fiscal crisis, finally pushing even Republicans to vote for tax hikes, overruling Brownback’s veto.

Survation latest poll (they predicted Hung P)

Con 39%, Lab 45%, Lib Dems 7%, UKIP 3%, Others 6%

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One of the greatest comedies ever made.

It hit the nail on the head so many times.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Their wants. No one is motivated by their needs (well they are, but not in this sense). People are more motivated to achieve their desires.

The motivations to achieve needs, are much darker drives, which its probably wise to avoid relying on.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Capitalism is the recognition of human nature independent of ethics.

Socialism is the ignoring or ignorance of human nature in hope of a more equal world.

An intelligent meshing of the two hopefully filters out the worse of both and enhances the best.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I generally agree with this.

Capitalism I think represents more of a reality where people cannot be trusted to be moral. Socialism relies on the requirement that people are moral.

Capitalism and Socialism are both ignorant of human nature (Capitalism fails to understand non-financial human motivation, Socialism fails to understand that humans are individuals first and foremost). The Third world is an inevitable consequence of capitalism, and oppressive regimes are the end result of total socialism.

Either one, devoid of the critical position of the other, are effectively socially harmful, in that the provide an immediate imbalance of corruptive power and

Of course that means Liberalism. Which ironically, I'd argue is probably the political movement that has done the most good in the UK in the last 200 years, and that everyone else tries to claim the credit for.

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No-one won the GE which is why they are operating as a minority government. How long they can steer that rudderless ship before it hits the rocks and smashes into smithereens is anyone's guess but I wouldn't be to optimistic of them being in power for the full term.

If another GE was held soon you and I both know the Tories would be even more worse off...unless they can pull that magic rabbit out of the hat.

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I think you'll find everyone lost.

The poll is interesting now as it gives the Tories a conundrum whether to limp on as best they can, having to deal with the zealots in the DUP on every vote and having to prop up a lame duck PM, or instead topple May and go for another GE ASAP and aim to actually win it this time.