Why Joe the Plumber is a Socialist (And You Are, Too)
By David Morris
"I can understand the appeal of taking sole credit for all of your achievements, of being a cowboy a maverick. But most of us are grownups, through with our days of playing cowboys and Indians. What we are, instead, is socialists part of a system larger than us, which requires careful management and sane regulation, preferably by someone who doesn't stand to gain from ripping the rest of us off. We are all socialists, whether we like it or not the only choice you have now is what kind of socialism you want to live under. You can choose to support a socialism that calls itself capitalist until the profits run out, and then runs crying to beg a loan from the public piggybank. Or you can support policies that recognize how much we all depend on one another, and that seek to help us work together for a secure society."
David Morris: Why Joe the Plumber is a Socialist (And You Are, Too)
By David Morris
"I can understand the appeal of taking sole credit for all of your achievements, of being a cowboy a maverick. But most of us are grownups, through with our days of playing cowboys and Indians. What we are, instead, is socialists part of a system larger than us, which requires careful management and sane regulation, preferably by someone who doesn't stand to gain from ripping the rest of us off. We are all socialists, whether we like it or not the only choice you have now is what kind of socialism you want to live under. You can choose to support a socialism that calls itself capitalist until the profits run out, and then runs crying to beg a loan from the public piggybank. Or you can support policies that recognize how much we all depend on one another, and that seek to help us work together for a secure society."
David Morris: Why Joe the Plumber is a Socialist (And You Are, Too)
