75 Ways Socialism Improved America

[Valley Oak]

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THU MAR 29, 2012
75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America
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This is a repost of a blog I wrote last year.

You can see the original here. It's exactly the same except the original has pictures!

I just wanted to bring this back in hopes of sparking a real, rational conversation about socialism.

I feel the narrative around common sense, Democratic Socialism is constantly negative and too many liberals are afraid to associate themselves with the word.

Socialism is not a bad thing. It benefits each and every one of us in one way or another.
Below the fold is 75 ways socialism has improved, shaped, and built America.

Socialism.

There is nothing more feared and hated in America.

The word alone sends shivers down the spine of the American people.

Those three syllables conger up images of Big Brother Government ruling over us all, telling us what to eat, wear, buy, and think. Our children in national uniform being indoctrinated with propaganda in government education camps that use to be schools, turning them into little slaves. While their parents work twelve hour shifts in the concentration camp that slaughters rich successful billionaires, as the poor and needy get a million dollars a month in welfare. A murderous government waging a war against freedom and liberty to gain complete control over everyone and everything.

You know, the way things were under that socialist Bill Clinton. And the way things are now under that socialist Barack Obama.

They imagine the USSR and how Democrats are turning America into it because our government will give money to poor people so they don't starve to death. (Giving money to billion dollar corporations is NOT socialism somehow. You would be a communist and a hippie to think otherwise.)
This is scary stuff!

And it's about to get scarier, because I have some terrifying news for you....

Socialism is alive and well in America and it has been here for a very long time!
Oh, that's not all. it gets much worse! I hope your sitting down...

As it turns out, You love socialism and you use it everyday, and you may not even know it! It may have even saved your life. I know, this is bad...

Now relax and breath. It's going to be okay! We are going to get through this.

You see, we are still a capitalist nation. In America, you can still make a billion dollars, get a giant tax cut, and pay your employees barely enough to survive while you sail in your yacht to escape any guilt that might inconvenience you. So don't freak out just yet!

The thing is, socialism is all over America and people actually like it. Even you... Yes you!

I know, I know. You're a conservative that believes in freedom and the constitution. You hate handouts and believe in hard work and the individual. You think government should get out of the way and let you live your lives and allow you to prosper on your own. You know that all rich people must have worked hard and all poor people are lazy. There is no other reason why they could be poor considering life is completely fair and all people are born into situations and environments that allow them to have all the opportunities and blessings that you had. There is no fathomable way they could have 2 or 3 jobs they work very hard at but still can't make ends meet. You got it all figured out.

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[Hotspring 44]

So I guess that one could sum up what the mass media and most politics that claim to 'hate', in this case (is) “socialism”; and that by doing so they are literally behaving 'antisocial' and have allowed themselves to be formed (manipulated) into a situation where they have themselves inside a destructive, closed-minded, self-loathing (“closeted” but still there), hypocrisy situation whereas they have not much actual educated basis on just what the facts are, therefore there is little or no base in their mind/s what socialism really is in actuality, and furthermore, the thing that makes it like a horror story, to me anyway, is that they don't want to be educated to the contrary regardless of what the facts are because they are emotionally attached to their current beliefs (be it Hell or high water, they already have their minds made up) even though by being that way is effectually causative of feeding that which they state that they fear and 'disdain' and in large part adds to their 'deficit' both monetarily and socially much to the detriment of the otherwise well being to themselves and others in the 'society' they actually live in and depend on.

[Valley Oak]

Couldn't have said it better myself!

So I guess that one could sum up what the mass media and most politics that claim to 'hate', in this case (is) “socialism”; and that by doing so they are literally behaving 'antisocial' and have allowed themselves to be formed (manipulated) into a situation where they have themselves inside a destructive, closed-minded, self-loathing (“closeted” but still there), hypocrisy situation whereas they have not much actual educated basis on just what the facts are, therefore there is little or no base in their mind/s what socialism really is in actuality, and furthermore, the thing that makes it like a horror story, to me anyway, is that they don't want to be educated to the contrary regardless of what the facts are because they are emotionally attached to their current beliefs (be it Hell or high water, they already have their minds made up) even though by being that way is effectually causative of feeding that which they state that they fear and 'disdain' and in large part adds to their 'deficit' both monetarily and socially much to the detriment of the otherwise well being to themselves and others in the 'society' they actually live in and depend on.