certainly more money spent on education has led to dumber people. Can only be denied by the blind.

The supply of pharmaceuticals in the States suffers from a number of anti free market forces. They need someone like Teddy Roosevelt to kick some heads in Congress, not Obamacare.

As an example, for over six years I have self-medicated with medical over-site for moderate to severe psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis with an unsubsidised industrial chemical that costs me a bit under $2US per year. The chemical has been the active agent used as a first line systemic treatment in Germany for nearly twenty-five years with demonstrated efficacy and safety. I tell my story on US psoriasis forums not to encourage people to copy me but to make the point that if I can get rid of over 99% of my disease as I have, then it may be of value having the chemical available as a pharmaceutical product managed by dermatologists in the States. As a managed pharmaceutical it can give an excellent outcome for over 30% of patients, which would shake up the market. It is a challenging argument to conduct, but I will persevere.

From my point of view, socialised medicine is whinging about how more of other people's money should be spent on you.

Hooray for Medicare. But the socialism that is creeping up on us has very little in common with the politics of Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke, or even Bill Shorten. It is the sort of all encompassing Marxism that is interested in control of the people it rules, not about its health and well-being. Nothing like it has ever existed in Australia, and the people who think it's about equality and caring need to start swatting up on history and the damage it has done wherever it has existed.

It's sad beyond belief how some people will just never learn to think for themselves.
The more I read comments by those "socialists" & progressives" & "educated" & "deniers of history" the more I'm starting to believe in the prophecies of the Bible.

Question

Are the prophecies of the bible really prophecies?
Or are they 'Self-fulfilling prophecies'?

I mean - If Christians never stop banging on about 'When Jesus comes back' and 'Looking forward to it' / 'aren't worried' because they will apparently 'all be up in heaven with Jesus'

Is it really a prophecy or is it a self fulfilling one?
- In that they're setting about making it happen with 'it' always being at the forefront of their beliefs.

It being: 'The hope that Jesus returns in their lifetimes'...

...Like effing seriously?
You're all looking forward to Armageddon?
- And doing your part to 'will it into existence'?

Global nuclear war with the damn sky on fire?
No thanks, I oppose this type of thinking;
And I aint no sheep, you can take it and shove it.

- Mostly because I think global thermonuclear war probably won't work out too well for the vast majority of earths inhabitants -

Arthur Chrenkoff's article is at http://thedailychrenk.com/2019/02/19/socialism-millennial-religion/

IMO it is a rather lazy article. He doesn't even bother to find out what the younger generations even mean by "socialism". Instead he makes idiotic assumptions about the kind of socialism they want.

In reality, socialism is (like capitalism) a broad range of features from which we can pick and choose. The historical evils committed in the name of socialism are largely irrelevant - those who consider them to be an intrinsic part of socialism conveniently forget the socialism of Western Europe!

Finally, making cheap shots at millennial (trying to pass off Americans' longstanding ignorance of world history/geopolitics as a millennial thing, and also a title scurrilously accusing them of treating economic philosophy as a religion) may fool other conservatives, but it exposes a lack of interest in the truth.