What Are "sheeple", Exactly?

[camberiu]

Peron was not the cause of the downfall. He was the symptom. He was the reflection, the personification if you will, of the Argentine society of the time. And the rest of South America was not that different. it was simply a little less intense than Argentina.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

So is prosperity, especially when the "welfare state" is created quickly and democracy descends into tyranny, as it did in Argentina:

From a notorious garbage source:

Too many vested interests had been created: a huge, parasitical state, over-powerful unions, a vast army of public employees. It is one of the dismal lessons of the twentieth century that, once a state is allowed to expand, it is almost impossible to contract it.

But just think what Argentina could have accomplished with leadership like this! http://tinyurl.com/oetbyjs

 

[steveinbsas]

Peron was not the cause of the downfall. He was the symptom. He was the reflection, the personification if you will, of the Argentine society of the time. And the rest of South America was not that different. it was simply a little less intense than Argentina.

Then he was the shepeld of the sheeple who followed him.

 

[steveinbsas]

From a notorious garbage source.

Congratulations, You have finally defined yourself accurately, even though you added the exp<b></b>ression "garbage source" to a "quote" of something that I did not write.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

He was the shepeld of the sheeple who followed him.

The Gulch is full of sheeple: http://www.truth-out.org/art/item/31546-a-confederacy-of-denial

 

[ajoknoblauch]

You have definitively described me without euphemism. I am proud to be a "garbage source."

Not much I can add to that.

 

[steveinbsas]

Note to ben: You recently suggested that I don't "engage" the troll, but it looks like I will not be able to make a new post on any subject without an assault from under the bridge.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Note to ben: I continue to be satirically challenged, but I assure you I will never desist from spurious denialism.

Admittedly, not everybody is capable of getting it.

 

[ARbound]

So is prosperity, especially when the "welfare state" is created quickly and democracy descends into tyranny, as it did in Argentina:

From Paul Johnson’s Modern Times:

As President, Perón gave a classic demonstration, in the name of socialism

"Steve actually thinks we're socialists, just like those lefties Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco!"

 

[steveinbsas]

"Steve actually thinks we're socialists, just like those lefties Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco!"

Where did you get the idea that I think Peron was equal to Mussolini, Hitler, and/or Franco?

Nothing in the quote from Johnson's book even mentioned Mussolini, Hitler, or Franco,but he may have in the book.

I recently saw a program about the rise of the National Socialists in the 1930's in Germany.

I suggest you study some history and see if you can find any parallels with Peronism.

PS: When I think of Mussolini, Hitler, and/or Franco I do think of fascism, but when I think of Peron I don't think of foreign wars or concentration camps and gas chambers. Not all socialist leaders have been murders, far from it, but most of the socialist dictators in the 20 have also been Generals or, like Hitler, wore military uniforms..

The idea that Peronism was "fascism with freedom" was recently expressed here in the forum, but I think that exp<b></b>ression is a contradiction in terms.

The people of Argentina may indeed have "enjoyed" far more "freedom" during the rule of Peron than the people of Italy, Germany, or Spain during the rule of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, but that did not make them free compared to the people in non-socialist countries. Not all soc