Why Republicans are resorting to anti-socialism hysteria

PoliTalker said:
And it's not like socialism is such a bad thing. We already have plenty of it mixed in with our capitalism. It's working very well for a lot of people. No reason to change that now.

And ya know?

It didn't grow and grow until it completely destroyed capitalism. Contrary to that point, capitalism is quite alive and well. The super rich capitalists continue to expand their wealth. Have you kept up with the worth of Jeff Bezos? There are lots of very rich people. And they all just got a lot richer, thanks to Trump, he is quite proud to say.
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Jealousy. Capitalism helps everyone. It opens the door to anyone that has the initiative to become rich. It opens the door to anyone with initiative to produce something and make themselves worth something to somebody.
Capitalism is not just the so-called 'super rich'.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The major type today, and the one practiced by the Democrats for the most part is Statist Capitalism. This form of Socialism blends the social-welfare state with it's high taxes and "free" handouts to the minions, with allowing larger corporations and businesses to remain in private hands. The owners of such companies collude with politicians in the form of quid pro quo--campaign "donations" for political favors. The government however, sets the production quotas and decides what will and will not be produced.
An example of this at the moment would be the Biden administration hammers coal and oil to reduce production thereof while favoring solar and wind with subsidies and less regulation. The same entities own all of that so they don't care. They gladly reduce coal and oil, crank up solar and wind, and raise prices on all of it as necessary to make a fat profit. Only the average person is hurt by all of that but neither the politicians or corporate management give a rat's ass about them.
The persons most dangerous to all of this are smaller business owners and the skilled professional class who are smart enough to see through it, wealthy enough to not like it, but not so wealthy that they are part of the ruling elite causing it. These are people that start revolutions, like the American Revolution, and have the savvy to pull it off. The elite know they're dangerous so they either placate them sufficiently to keep the revolution from happening or they drive them into the poor house with the untermench and peasants where they can no longer afford to organize one.
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This is actually socialism. It is fascism.
 
PoliTalker said:
If super-rich people 'earned' lots of money by ripping off the general public, no way they are going to want to have even some of it taxed back away from them to help the people they ripped off.

That's why they have this whole propaganda hype about the 'horrors' of socialism.

Gotta keep the ruse going and pretend they are great contributors to society because they have figured out how to get super-rich, or simply preserve and extend wealth they inherited as if it is some kind of family legacy.
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Businesses that rip off it's customers won't be around for long!
 
Rich people love to blame the poor for their own condition.

Even as the rich and powerful make all the major government decisions which affect the lives of the poor, they blame the poor for 'making bad decisions,' such as their education, who they marry, and whether or not and when to have children.

The rich simply do not have any idea what the mindset of being poor is like. When an individual is so poor that they don't know where their next meal is coming from that's all they are thinking about. There is no strategy for long term wealth management when there is no wealth to manage. The stream of consciousness is focused on how to get the next meal, period. It is coupled with a belief that the world has abandoned them or overlooked them, that they have no worth as a human being. There is no self esteem, no believe in ability to accomplish anything. These things come from previous success or being told by parents during a good healthy upbringing what is possible to achieve by striving for it with determination. That mindset does not exist in the chronically poor. It is about so much more than bad decision making.

Blaming the poor for their own condition is popular among the greedy rich who are looking for justification for cutting their own taxes to get even richer.
 
PoliTalker said:
Rich people love to blame the poor for their own condition.

Even as the rich and powerful make all the major government decisions which affect the lives of the poor, they blame the poor for 'making bad decisions,' such as their education, who they marry, and whether or not and when to have children.

The rich simply do not have any idea what the mindset of being poor is like. When an individual is so poor that they don't know where their next meal is coming from that's all they are thinking about. There is no strategy for long term wealth management when there is no wealth to manage. The stream of consciousness is focused on how to get the next meal, period. It is coupled with a belief that the world has abandoned them or overlooked them, that they have no worth as a human being. There is no self esteem, no believe in ability to accomplish anything. These things come from previous success or being told by parents during a good healthy upbringing what is possible to achieve by striving for it with determination. That mindset does not exist in the chronically poor. It is about so much more than bad decision making.

Blaming the poor for their own condition is popular among the greedy rich who are looking for justification for cutting their own taxes to get even richer.
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yes. lockdowns are a tool to destroy the economy and plunge even more people into poverty.
 
Into the Night said:
This is actually socialism. It is fascism.
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It's a form of Socialism. It often turns Fascist because the government needs to control the bulk of the population or faces being tossed out and the whole cabal brought down. That's why Communism ends up a dictatorship. It can't work on the macro scale otherwise. You can't have people objecting to it or working outside of the system.

The latter is one of the usual unintended consequences of such economic systems. People begin to find ways to evade paying taxes, fees, and such. In Europe tax cheating is a national pastime. In the most Socialist countries like, Spain, Italy, or Greece, tax cheating is universal and rampant.

Stamping out entrenched tax evasion is crucial to Premier Mario Monti's quest to keep Italy from succumbing to the European debt crisis, and it is critical to fellow eurozone members in more dire straits, such as Greece and Spain — which are also notorious for making cheating the taxman a way of life.

Indeed, Greece's international rescue creditors have been pressing Greece for two years to reform its ailing tax system, citing poor collection as a key factor keeping the country mired in crisis. In Spain, where tax fraud is rampant, as much as €90 billion ($115 billion) is lost each year to tax fraud -- the equivalent of the country's national debt, according to Spain's main tax inspectors union.
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/plumb...l-to-reformers-plan-to-rescue-italian-economy

In the Soviet Union, the black market was rampant and often outperformed the legal economy. Those big black marketers went legit when the Soviet Union fell and became oligarchs and billionaires in many cases.

The same would happen here with rampant Socialism, in whatever form it took. It's already bad in states like New York or California where tax cheats and work-arounds to avoid regulation are the norm.
 
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