"I have been making a living telling people Obama is not a socialist," says Frank Llewellyn, national director of the Democratic Socialists of America. "It's frustrating to see people using our brand to criticize programs that have nothing to do with our brand and are not even working."
i agree with this. he gives a bad name to any self-respecting socialist. before anyone flames me, im NOT a socialist. i can understand some of their views and some of others' views. who cares what he "says" his ideology is o not, anyways? the president is a figure-head. a puppet. that is all. george bush, his administration, and his pals in the senate and house took over AIG. obama, his administration, and his pals in the senate and house took over GM. they both "spread the wealth" around the richest in the system. this is fascism, not socialism. the people dont own anything because the corporate oligarchy has the government by the balls, and though the government "owns" all this stock with "our" tax dollars, they work as a team.
in the end, i dont believe it actually matters what system of government anyone has. it will always descend into some form of fascism and die. eventually, a small group of people end up using their power to take control of most of the resources, and a marriage of corporation and government is necessary to justify the imbalance. after that, everything is about profit, not progress. that is just my opinion and view on history, though.
its definitely an important subject, though. especially here. i think a lot of people throw around words like socialism and fascism without actually understanding what these terms mean or what state our economy is in (sorry, NOT true capitalism). on that note, it never says anywhere in our constitution that we should always have a capitalist economy. i always wonder if the die-hard capitalists would side for democracy if the a state or country elected a socialist leader, or started enacting socialist principles. is it upholding freedom and democracy to tell people who they can and cannot vote for just because they have a different view on how the economic structure of a country should work? i dont think so, and i think freedom and democracy are far more important than capitalism or socialism. if our economic structure is interfering with these two principles, something should change.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
-Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution
an American Socialist thinks "...promote the general Welfare..." is the most important part of this statement.
an American Capitalist thinks "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
i dont see why we cant do both just as well. i mean, we think we're so special with our intelligence and all...yet we cant figure out how to have health care AND cool stuff?
good post!
