Quote Originally Posted by TomMcC View Post
I think Will's comment about human nature was about right. I see socialism as a system driven by the lust for lording it over people, a lust for power with really no check on it. At least with our system, a democratic republic, the founders were very concerned about limiting this lust for power and it's abuse.
I remember reading about Hamilton and Banking and then the Whiskey Rebellion. If I had to point a finger exactly where, that might have been the start or it.
That the Socialist Progressives love the guy so much they made a musical doesn't surprise me.