Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Reality is both restrict freedoms, control every aspect of life, intolerant to opposition, create an elite political class and make everyone else equal. The government them claims you didn't build your business, so you must share profits through high taxation.
The socialist dems are scaring everyone, not the GOP.
Evidence of socialist bureaucrats was the Schiff one sided trial, having the USAG falsify warrants and judge shop to spy on opposing journalists. Frightening to have a rogue IRS office in Cincinnati suppress the conservative vote.
What the Bernie supporters don't get is that we look at career politicians like Bernie who helped to spend the nation 22 trillion into debt, and we ask ourselves can we trust them with our personal futures? Hell No
We look at guys like Bernie, the do as I say not as I do types and we ask ourselves does he really give a damn about me? Hell no
WE look at a man who couldn't manage his personal life before politics and ask, is this the person who is qualified to manage a nation? Hell NO.
Bernie supporters are in love with Bernie's promise of paradise. A paradise that someone will have to pay for, and anyone with 1 grey cell in their skull knows, it won't be paid for by the rich, because the rich are our elected reps who make the laws. It will be the middle class that foots the bill.
I am surrounded by ex-pats from Sweden, Norway and Finland. If those countries are the promised land the left claims why do they produce so many ex-pats?
So didn't Trump sign off on yet more debt?
People didn't have a problem voting for a president to run the country who declared business bankruptcy several times.
This is completely right. Trumpers like to try to scare people by claiming that Sander's Democratic Socialism is the same as text book socialism. They also like to use the tactic of calling it Venezuelan Socialism. Neither is accurate or true, or even leaning toward truth. Both are purposefully inflammatory and disingenuous.
Sander's Democratic Socialism does not eliminate capitalism. It put controls on it so that the actual people in a society are supported and served, not just the corporations and oligarchs. This scare tactic comes across as name calling and fear mongering, not as intelligent discussion. But that is trumpism. I guess we will see how that works.
The kind of socialism Trump and Republicans stand for is known as corporate socialism.
Nobody's "tagging" anyone. Sanders is a self-described Socialist.
Socialism has NEVER been effective. It has ALWAYS resulted in starvation, death to those to speak out in opposition, misery to the citizens, and death to millions.
This!!! A million times over.
Anyone who thinks Bernie isn’t a socialist hasn’t been listening to anything he’s been saying...
I think that by now it's been going on for something like a hundred years. And it still works on some people, although Bernie has diminished the fear a bit.
Republicans have a long, disreputable history of conflating any attempt to improve American lives with the evils of "socialism." When Medicare was first proposed, Ronald Reagan called it "socialized medicine," and he declared that it would destroy our freedom. These days, if you call for something like universal child care, conservatives accuse you of wanting to turn America into the Soviet Union. It's a smarmy, dishonest political strategy, but it's hard to deny that it has sometimes been effective.
Anyone who thinks Bernie isn’t a socialist hasn’t been listening to anything he’s been saying...
Amen.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
