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Originally Posted by RichC
I agree, corporations are not going to bite the hand that feeds.
But they are racking up environmental, and human rights violations continually.
I can't see how liberals could be responsible.
Are liberals creating the sweat shops in China that sell clothes to Walmart.
Are liberals responsible for oil spills like deep water horizon?
It took me three month to find socks that I felt ok with buying.
They were from an American company, that pays decent wages, and sources their
materials responsibly.
I am a true liberal.
I have compassion for people and the world.
Corporations do not have compassion, they have bottom lines.
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Progressive programs have their own litany of travesties and horrors that they visit upon us.
Many folks like to see their side as virtuous and their opponents as demonic.
Your story about socks describes how you went about making your market decision. My criteria differs.
I'm pretty sure that a reasoned, non-passionate analysis would show that both of our perspectives have strengths and weaknesses.
Big businesses (who I dislike because of their arrogance), big government, big unions, big educational agendas, big media, etc.
I dislike all of it. May be necessary but to sum it up as liberal=good and right-wing=bad. I don't think it works that way.
PS - Compassion is a very popular 'buzz word'. Personally I'd like to provide the means whereby people have the opportunity to improve if they wish to. That's why I pursue 'wealth-creation.' This concept is profoundly foreign to progressives. I'm not going to argue that republicans are much better but I'm not looking to either for what I want.
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