K831, if some of us seem less than scholarly it's because we have had endless posts on 'Hitler was a socialist' on endless threads by Billcihak, it's even posted on threads that have little to do with Nazism. We've had posts on how conservatives are happy people, socialists aren't, conservatives are peaceful, socialists are violent, please do read every single one of Billcihak's posts and see if you are left with the same ennui as we feel. We've even, as I've said before, had Maggie Thatcher being accused of being a socialist. It's not an academic discussion as someone has said, hell it's not even a debate anymore. I did appreciate your posts though, it was refreshing to have someone express their own thoughts whether we agree or not but frankly I think a lot of us are tired of the endless anti left, anti socialist posts, I think Billcihak must a great tool in the conservatives fight against socialism.
If we post in a non academic, generalised way it's because we've tried the scholarly approach, we've tried the debating approach, we've tried discussing but what we get back are more thoughts from media types, more blank assertions that Hitler was a socialist as was Mussolini and goodness knows who else. I invite you to try to open an open discussion with Billcihak.
Blade, I don't mind my name being used so much it's how it's used that bothers me. On that particular thread someone was trying to wind me up by using my name as Canuck says as a way of saying 'I know who you are', it is creepy. Perhaps it's being English but we expect to be called in real life by title ie Miss/Mrs/Mr and our surname until we say a person can use our forename. We don't like to be called by our first names until we say, it smacks of used car salesmen, it's sleazy. Here I prefer Tez, friends who PM me call me my my first name of course. Elder you are absolutely a friend!
If we post in a non academic, generalised way it's because we've tried the scholarly approach, we've tried the debating approach, we've tried discussing but what we get back are more thoughts from media types, more blank assertions that Hitler was a socialist as was Mussolini and goodness knows who else. I invite you to try to open an open discussion with Billcihak.
Blade, I don't mind my name being used so much it's how it's used that bothers me. On that particular thread someone was trying to wind me up by using my name as Canuck says as a way of saying 'I know who you are', it is creepy. Perhaps it's being English but we expect to be called in real life by title ie Miss/Mrs/Mr and our surname until we say a person can use our forename. We don't like to be called by our first names until we say, it smacks of used car salesmen, it's sleazy. Here I prefer Tez, friends who PM me call me my my first name of course. Elder you are absolutely a friend!
Actually to save trouble of looking at my profile, my name is Jacklyn. There, I said it. 
