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Your assertion of any fact is questionable by definition.

I often get that reaction, from people who can't refute what the original post said. The more truculent among them, usually attack the messenger instead.

Acorn, you are full of shit. Another typical reaction from people who can neither back up their own assertions nor come up with any others.

I study issues and make reasoned conclusions. Starting when?

Back to the subject:
Socialism is usually practiced by people who either don't look back into history to see what its results have been in the past, or by people who DO look back but then come to the conclusion that they can do better. That would be OK if they were simply playing with a chessboard or something. But all too frequently they try to impose their "new" experiments on entire groups of people. And when they manage to do this, horrors usually result, as they did to the colonists in the New World.

Fortunately, the colonists were honest enough to see the error of their ways, and change course to a plan that worked. But many other socialist groups have not been, from the USSR to Nazi Germany to Cuba. And the modern liberals of the U.S., from Howard to Hillary to John to Jesse, appear to have their blinders on just as rigidly. Even China, which has been allowing increasing amounts of capitalism, only did so after several bloody purges whose victims numbered in the millions.

A free press is vital to the search for past precedents that can guide us away from failures. Publishing the memoirs of such failures as the early colonies, must go on despite the sneers and slime of those who try to pretend that publishing them is wrong.