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Sal Caruso
You're paranoid and insane. Trump and Trumpists are DANGEROUS to democracy and to all things good. It was the People acting democratically who instituted Social Security, welfare, food stamps, and laws against abandoning patients, and now the Affordable Care Act. Every other decent modern nation has these social laws, and the republicans are NOT interested in rendering democracy, or in the less fortunate, they want to reduce the tax burden of the rich thieves who should be KILLED for all they have stolen from the rest of us. When your "freedom" amounts to a license to steal, and you put profit ahead of people, then it runs afoul of the concept of freedom entirely. The Social Contract is one no one signs, because they accept it by asking the society for its protection of their wealth and safety. They OWE us whatever we democratically decide to charge for protecting them from the otherwise law of the jungle, kill or be killed, the war of nature, as Darwin called it. They should be DAMNED GLAD they belong to the biggest gang, AND that this gang is democratic, it could just as easily be under a king or warlord under whom they had NO guarantee of rights or equality before the law AT ALL. They owe to us ANY tax we charge their wealth for our protection. Our system IS what allowed them to enrich themselves, so they are required to do it under restrictions WE set democratically. Republicans are literally trying to return us to feudalism, with their rich paymasters the kings. Sorry, but we democrats, social democrats, socialists, and democracy defenders are NOT going to permit that!! Next election 4 more years of old republican FUCKS will be dead, and a new 4 years of millennials, atheists, and socialists will be here to vote. You shit are running out of soldiers for your coup!!
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Sal Caruso
No, Socialism is merely the taking of wealth from some to meet the needs of the rest. In the textbooks, neither true socialism nor communism are other than DEMOCRATIC, the assertion that it leads to dictatorship or tyranny is an American bowdlerization of the correct understanding. And in fact, USSR, Cuba, China, etc. the right wing's usual list of suspects, none of those are/were socialism or communism! Why? Because they are not democratic and are ruled by wealthy elites, which true socialism would never allow to exist. NO instance of any "communist" nation exists that is not some fascist dictator or wealthy class usurping the term to confuse their own population!! As for the Nazis, once again a dictator usurped the term "socialist" to confuse the population because socialism had been popular previously in Germany. You have utterly failed at any degree of respectable scholarship on this topic. Instead you swallowed, hook, line, and sinker the propaganda of the American wealthy class which controls our textbooks. There is NO such similar misunderstanding in Europe where socialist measures are what has given them a society everyone else wants to move to. Nobody strips your rights away by socialist measures in a democracy. In fact socialism EXPANDS your rights beyond merely the basic economic rights to be randomly rich and privileged, or poor and terrified, by giving up the right to the low probability chance to be rich, for the right to be safe and healthy and educated, cared for and protected. The basic economic rights in the USA don't even guarantee that the society will not starve you to death or leave you in the gutter, evicted, with some disease. Socialism protects you from the problem of not knowing, once born here, whether you will be rich and privileged, which is very unlikely, or be disabled, wretched, unfortunate, and deprived of any decent life. In fact, ALL democracy, at long last, inevitably BECOMES Socialism because it GIVES THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT!! Once the people know what's going on they no longer fall for the American shell game lottery, a vague chance to be richer than others and get to lord it over and abuse the rest of everyone, and instead they realize that the best chance for fairness and equality and safety and health and protection lies in Social Democracy, which then heads, inexorably, to Democratic Socialism.
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