Why Are Americans and Conservatives So Afraid of Socialism?

[citygator]

Because we love freedom.

Socialist ideas don’t restrict freedom. Social security, post office, public roads… here are 75 ways your life was improved with socialist programs:

75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America

Uncover the surprising benefits of socialism in America; see why it matters to everyone and share your thoughts today.

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[bripat9643]

Like I said. Only in your mind. I suggest opening up your information sources more broadly as well as pursuing some additional formal education. You’ll be better prepared to battle your fears.

Of course, as always, you fail to provide any evidence to support you're moronic claims.

I have no interest in reading commie propaganda.

 

[bripat9643]

Socialist ideas don’t restrict freedom.

Of course they do, moron. Socialism means the government makes all your decisions in stead of you.

Social security, post office, public roads… here are 75 ways your life was improved with socialist programs:

Not really. These things would be better and cheaper if provided privately.

 

[SweetTea]

Bullshit. They still want to sponge off the government while simultaneously moaning about socialism. You are all hypocrits.

My entire extended family are Republicans and none of us sponge off the government, in fact, we pay more taxes than most.

 

[Soupnazi630]

Noting remotely socialist or communist about the USSR.
With socialism or communism, the decision making and profit sharing has to be done democratically and equally.
The USSR was a dictatorship of the wealthy elite, just like any capitalist monarchy.

There are people who have done socialism, but they are very successful at it, like Scandanavian countries, primitive tribes, etc.

The USSr was communist.

With communism and socialism there is an elite ruling class which makes decision and it is never about sharing.

 

[Soupnazi630]

Wrong.
Socialism and communism predate human history.
Marx and Engles never claimed to have invented communism, and they said it always existed and was from the nature of mankind.
I have never heard any one ever suggest the French Revolution had anything to do with socialism, as it clearly did not,
Socialism in Europe was more embodied in the small independent German states, and Scandanavia as well.
France was the aristocratic model of the Romans, and Napoleon did not change that in the least.
The closest to anything else was the VERY short lived Jacobians.

Wrong.

MArx and Engles invented the modern ideology of communism which is not about communal living or sharing.

You are wrong unediucated and uninformed./

 

[Soupnazi630]

Not at all true.

Capitalism is purely an economic profit motive, which can best be obtained through dictatorship.
Socialism is an economic sharing system that requires democracy because it means allowing capitalism, but regulating it and providing public alternatives to avoid monopolies.
Fascism is dictatorship and private ownership, which is the political layer that supports economic capitalism the most.
Communism can be almost anything except a dictatorship. It is impossible to have communal anything without communal decision making.

Wrong and completelty false.

Profit motive is good and never works through dictatorship.

Communism is always by defiition a dictatorship.

 

[Soupnazi630]

Name a single family, tribe, or any small organization that is not communist?

All of them

 

[Soupnazi630]

Anyone who rejects socialism obviously does not at all understand it.
A prime example is health care.
The US has one of the worst health care systems in the world, murdering about 100,000 people a year out of medical malpractice, yet costing more than twice what health care costs in any other country.

Why is that?
Because we allowed health insurance companies to take over health care with a monopoly, where is you do not join their prepaid plan, you are locked out of all access.
And by prepaying to a third party, you lose all control over quality or cost.

All of those rejectin g it know more about it than you

 

[Colin norris]

My entire extended family are Republicans and none of us sponge off the government, in fact, we pay more taxes than most.

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My entire extended family are Republicans and none of us sponge off the government,
You receive all the benefits that socialism offers. Hospitals, roads, teachers, doctors, nurses, police etc.
You do it while not knowing it but you suggest you are smart enough to know say you don't.
Stick with your silly bible.






in fact, we pay more taxes than most.

You might think you pay more but you have no evidence of that. Don't give me that bullshit where you think democrats don't pay tax you fool. You th8nk the economy runs on Republican taxes .
Grow up.

 

[citygator]

Red states are takers!

 

[SweetTea]

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My entire extended family are Republicans and none of us sponge off the government,
You receive all the benefits that socialism offers. Hospitals, roads, teachers, doctors, nurses, police etc.
You do it while not knowing it but you suggest you are smart enough to know say you don't.
Stick with your silly bible.






in fact, we pay more taxes than most.

You might think you pay more but you have no evidence of that. Don't give me that bullshit where you think democrats don't pay tax you fool. You th8nk the economy runs on Republican taxes .
Grow up

I didn't say we didn't utilize services. I said we don't sponge off the government. We send our kids to private school and we are fully insured. Ironically, we utilize less than many that don't pay taxes or pay very little.

I know for a fact we pay more taxes than most because we pay more than most make. 50% don't pay taxes at all so it isn't much of a stretch. If you remove the ultra-wealthy, I can guarantee you that Republicans pay more taxes than Democrats because they make more on average.

 

[Colin norris]

I didn't say we didn't utilize services. I said we don't sponge off the government. We send our kids to private school and we are fully insured. Ironically, we utilize less than many that don't pay taxes or pay very little.

I know for a fact we pay more taxes than most because we pay more than most make. 50% don't pay taxes at all so it isn't much of a stretch. If you remove the ultra-wealthy, I can guarantee you that Republicans pay more taxes than Democrats because they make more on average.

You're a liar.
Your guarantees of anything mean nothing. Anything outside proof is pure opinion.

 

[dblack]

Red states are takers!

Could care less about the red/blue quibbling, but in my view anyone who opposes the welfare state is morally obligated to abuse it as much as they can manage.

 

[SweetTea]

You're a liar.
Your guarantees of anything mean nothing. Anything outside proof is pure opinion.

I don't really care what you believe. Wealthier folks in red states tend to vote Republican. Poor folks in red states tend to vote Democrat. That is not an opinion, but a fact.

 

[SweetTea]

Red states are takers!

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Yes, we have lower taxes and more Democrats than you would believe. They are the takers by a LARGE margin in red states.

 

[citygator]

Yes, we have lower taxes and more Democrats than you would believe. They are the takers by a LARGE margin in red states.

You guys can’t even take responsibility for your own state failures. News flash dipshit: Blue states have MORE Democrats and are not murderer havens like red states are. It’s blood thirsty conservatives killing mofos everywhere. Look at that Louisiana map I posted.

 

[braalian]

Society is better due to welfare, Medicare, and Social Security, so why complain about them?
They cost almost nothing

You realize that can’t possibly be true, right?

 

[dblack]

You realize that can’t possibly be true, right?

Truth is irrelevant.

 

[PredFan]

They don't see blacks as Americans.

They had serfs in Russia, Britain, Germany, but they always saw the serfs as part of their people, their tribe, if you will.

Many Americans don't see blacks as the tribe.

They don't want to give money to outsiders, and they think of black Americans as outsiders.

What a racist piece of shit you are.