en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/762722 Comments by Arvak http://www.poligazette.com/2010/01/20/hope-for-change/#IDComment53209626 <blockquote>A country with this kind of political analysis cannot survive, and I am very glad I don&#039;t live in it.</blockquote> I always love when anti-Americans come forth to lecture Americans on what&#039;s good for them. :) Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:44:08 +0000 http://www.poligazette.com/2010/01/20/hope-for-change/#IDComment53209626 http://www.poligazette.com/2010/01/21/call-for-moderate-democratic-party/#IDComment53167803 It is far from certain that every incremental change deemed by someone to be &quot;socialist&quot; actually is &quot;socialist&quot;, let alone a bad idea. Thus, I myself don&#039;t automatically reject an idea just because someone throws the &quot;socialist&quot; label at it. But even if incremental changes proposed by more moderate Democrats do add up as a &quot;path to socialism&quot;, the advantage of an incremental approach still holds true for reasons of transparency -- the details of incremental changes are more likely to be debated explicitly rather than buried in a sweeping package that is thousands of pages long and rammed through by purists before anyone is even allowed to read it, let alone debate it. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:49:48 +0000 http://www.poligazette.com/2010/01/21/call-for-moderate-democratic-party/#IDComment53167803