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On 22/01/2021 17:51, Roger Mills wrote:
On 22/01/2021 13:46, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Â*Â*Â* bert wrote:



Spoken like a true socialist.


Very sad the way you Tories think only you are entitled to be well off.
Everyone else should be poor.


That's not the point he was making. I think he was referring to the
hypocrisy of those who opposed council sales on principle but
nevertheless benefited by buying their own council house - or those who
oppose private education for everyone else but have their own kids
privately educated. Do as I say .Â* .Â* .


You miss the point. Socialism is about what you say and how you feel.
How you act simply doesn't enter into it.

You are treading on the face of the working class as an act
of solidarity.

--
€œPeople believe certain stories because everyone important tells them,
and people tell those stories because everyone important believes them.
Indeed, when a conventional wisdom is at its fullest strength, ones
agreement with that conventional wisdom becomes almost a litmus test of
ones suitability to be taken seriously.€

Paul Krugman