I have a suggestion: practice what you preach.
Keep your blind hatreds and intolerances under control.

You make statements like this: 

Quote - ...and this goes for your rabid  friend as well...

Where have I made even one single personal attack in this thread?
The "personal attack" that makes me "rabid" is that I don't agree with your communistic rhetoric. It's not my fault that liberal socialist policies are absolute and universal failures; I'm just simply pointing out the fact. Doesn't make me rabid.

How about, instead of slandering me with vicious personal attacks (which don't really bother me); you give me an example, from anywhere in the history of the planet, where socialistic centralized government control has done anything but cause misery, poverty, famine, and worse?
North Korea? Cambodia? Germany (c.a. 1930s and 40s)? Stalinist Russia? Cuba?
I don't mean revisionist history either. I'm talking about reality, not some Ivory Tower pipe dream that never happened.
I'd even accept an example of any one facet of socialist society that is a clear benefit for the citizens: education? health care? employment? law enforcement? military?... just name one.

What exactly are the benefits of concentrating all power and wealth in a tiny minority, while everyone else is taxed to death (a lot of times, literally) to support them?

Friends don't let friends use booleans.