Democrats: More Communist Every Day
What in the hell is wrong with the Democratic party that it has not one but two members in good standing who are absolutely unafraid to go in front of television cameras and say that the Federal government should nationalize the oil industry?
Then again, as I think of it, even though Communism inpovershes the people who live under it, it wildly enriches the elites who control the government. So, okay, I understand why the Democrats want to bring Communism to America. They’re operating under the standard “I gots to get paid, son” principle.
What I don’t understand is how the American people can let them get by with that un-American bilge. .Jeff Goldstein asks the right question.
The question then, is this: have the American people, either through progressive bromides or an educational system that has been battling to turn government into a secular godhead, become so dumbed down that they will fail to recognize explicit calls for communism when they see them?
I don’t know the answer to that question. I do agree with Jeff that it’s not a good sign that we’ve nominated two progressive-leaning, milquetoast nanny-staters for the highest office in the land. On the other hand, neither of them actually had to tell us what their economic or energy policies were during the primaries. Neither Obama nor Clinton dealt with any substantive policy questions during their plethora of debates and the mostly fawning moderators (Tim Russert being one of the few exceptions) never bothered to insist on it. John McCain simply outlasted the other candidates whom Republican voters disqualified, not based on any real policy issues, but on silly fripperies like whether they had “fire in the belly” or their religion.
So now we’re pretty much stuck with two men who want to sell us the scrapings of a long-discredited economic policy and an energy policy that a ten year old child playing Sim City would think was stupid. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is seeing a choice opportunity to drive some cracks into our principles of free enterprise and private property ownership and no one on that side of the aisle seems to think that’s a bad enough idea to do some public denouncing.
(via memeorandum)
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Category: Our New Democratic Overlords
And they say that the Bush administration tore up the Constitution. Which article will they use to nationalize the oil companies? I suppose they can just force a sale to some of their friends under the Kelo decision, since it will be for the public good.
martin, I don't think they care about the Constitution. The left has never particularly cared about what it says, but what they want it to mean. They govern accordingly.
I heard a woman on Cavuto yesterday saying something to the effect of we need to nationalize it because the resource belongs to the poeple and she thought we needed to "give it to the people (Americans) so they can decide how to manage it".
Does she mean like when we decided against gay marriage? Illegal immigration? Restrictions on abortion?
I mean seriously, why not just say they want to steal it to line their own pockets while rationing its use among the rightful owners, the American people, until they are starved into submission? I just hate it when they lie…
It's interesting that she would say that. That's exactly the rationale that communist countries have used to nationalize all sorts of industries. First, it's the natural resources of the nation that belong to "the people". Then it's the people's labor. Eventually, it's the people's very thoughts.
America has never, ever operated on the principle that its natural resources belonged to a collective. I would hope that Cavuto had someone on after her to provide education.
I don't know. As soon as she said "the people's resources" I got scared & changed the channel real quick. Can only take small doses you know.
You have to stick in there, Lori. If we don't uncover these marxists whenever they tout one of their foolish platitudes, no one else will.
At least no one in the MSM will. Or the Democratic party.
With any luck, Cavuto, who knows his economics and his politics, smacked the commie up a bit.
I have been trying for years to show friends, family and people on message boards that the things these pols are saying are based on communist principles. Have only had a minimum amount of success. The problem is, people don't seem to think communism is that bad. Doesn't matter how many bodies pile up. I don't understand it.
Communism isn't all that bad…
What I don't understand is why you all think so. My only educated guess is that we don't see the bodies from Capitalism pile up from our backyard American style BBQs (I love a good BBQ, personally). Capitalism is a "for profit" organization. It doesn't care if millions die for diamonds, oil, coal, opium poppies, etc. It will bring a nation's young men and women to foreign lands to fight and die for resources like those. I think "people's resources" sounds better than "war for resources."
And if they aren't the "people's resources" then who's resources are they?
Joe, you need to read a history book sometime and get your head out of the propaganda pages.
Joe,
I am going to assume you are not trying to be funny by comparing mild overconsumption of BBQ to the contrived food shortages that forced millions upon millions under Soviet rule to resort to cannibalism as their hunger & suffering began to overwhelm them? You are not going to equate our people, who might die in their 60's & 70's of hardened arteries after a lifetime of comfort & enjoyment, to children & babies whithering down to skin & bones in unspeakable misery that resulted from this beloved concept of collectivism; converting private owners' resources into the "people's resources".