I have a profile picture on Facebook that a very liberal friend of mine found very interesting (the same intense Intense Debate profile pic that I have here) and wrote on my Wall about it:
"So are you colbert or obama?
odd profile pixture.
And what's wrong with socialism? It seems to work for education, else you wouldn't know the word."
My response:
"I would have to be Colbert and it's supposed to mean that socialism is now a threat, but whether if it's interpreted that way by everyone else, I don't know.
Since it seems that we're on opposite ends of the political spectrum when it comes to the economy, I think we may end up having a long discussion. I know socialism for the failure that it is and that it only leads to government control over the country; this is adverse to the beliefs of the founders of our country. Socialism also inhibits the only thing that promotes prosperity: competition.
Being on the subject of education, we're very poor as a country on that area. Since public schools are funded by the government at the taxpayer's expense, all failing schools aren't given much of a reason to do better since they're given the same amount of money that a successful school gets. What's worse is that those failing schools set the standards due to standardized testing, which forces successful schools to lower their standards."
He then sent me a message. I was thinking it would be something else like a good debate response that he had to some of mine on a debate 6 months ago on Facebook, which I posted on Conservative Input. But instead I got this:
"So you're a moderate pretending to be an extreme liberal pretending to be an extreme conservative?"
My response- "What makes me a moderate and how am I pretending to be an extreme liberal? I define myself as being a conservative."
His response-"No, thats what steven colbert is. And you said you were steven colbert in that picture"
My response-"Now I'm confused. Could you explain? I don't know what Colbert's political views are. I'm trying to say that socialism in a threat or at least I assume that's what the Threat Down thing is supposed to imply."
Nothing. All he cared about was the chef salad of my responses and completely ignored the meat and potatoes as if he were on some sort of diet. He just went back to sipping his Kool-Aid.
