"[...]we're about to elect the most left-leaning,liberal senator, to combine him with a congress that has the lowest approval rating of ALL TIME,and with a very left-leaning liberal senate to have all 3 phases of the US Gov't run by democrats, as they begin their push to move the USA as far left as they can get us, as liberal as they can make us, and another step closer to socialism and eventually communism.
time to wake up, electing Obama is going to be a very,very bad thing for this country..Mccain isn't great either, but at least then we'll have a system of checks and balances in place to thwart off Nancy Pelosi and the liberals..
otherwise, we're in serious trouble."
My reply follows:
I couldn't help responding to Rob's anti-socialist statements. I discover, when I check my pockets, that I am, at end, a full-blown socialist. So I take offense to this forgone conclusion we've been spoon-fed since kindergarten; That socialism = bad.
Capitalism cannot survive indefinitely. Well, that's actually incorrect; Capitalism can survive, but if it does everyone else has to go. Technology and automation have made running a 12 acre farm a one man job. One guy gets on the tractor and the tractor does the work; work it used to take a dozen or more farm hands days and weeks to complete. Technology and automation have taken millions of laborers off the assembly lines and out of the factories, and replaced them with robotics. Shop floors that used to bustle with hundreds of 401k holding, vacation time-accruing, sweat and blood of the American economy, full-time employees are now the industrial equivalent of ghost towns. The warm flesh of their erstwhile work force replaced by cold machinery. The only human ambassadors to the, otherwise vacant, mill and forge are there for 'Quality Control.' A lone, underpaid, under valued, under-represented worker sits at the mouth of a mechanized monstrosity - the marvel of modern science - staring at products rolling off the end of the line. He alone is still necessary, so he alone collects a paycheck.
How - I have to ask - do you propose capitalism will carry us forward, when all it has done since the invention of the cotton gin, is over-produce, centralize power, and put people out of work? How will capitalism not push your precious middle class into my precious lower class, and then push both of those classes into poverty; and then push the hundreds of millions of newly poor and homeless into Thunderdome?
This thread is called "When is it time for Revolution?" and a growing majority of the respondents agree: it is long-since-passed the time for revolution. Still, here we are, unable even to entertain a revolutionary thought; Unable to pull ourselves from the safe, embracing status quos which serve the very evils we seek to escape. We find ourselves rehashing the same capitalist dogma that empowers the cultural dehumanization which has led us to this point; which has led some of you to consider destruction, death, and civil war as a means of political and economic change. How blind are we? How ignorant to cradle and defend these dying institutions even as they poison and destroy us?
Socialism does not have to be the absolutely uniform redistribution of wealth. It doesn't have to be the government mandated homogeny you think of when you hear the word. It doesn't have to be soup-lines and food-tickets. It doesn't have to be any of the things that scare you. We are not slaves to the ideas of other men and so we can make American socialism whatever we want… whatever we need it to be. The only rule we must conform to in order to be called a socialist state, is to put human life above the dollar; to put the good of people before the good of institutions. All else will fall into place.
That's the only ticket I can vote for: http://www.pslweb.org/...
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