"Conservatives say this is proof that Obama is a socialist. Since "spreading the wealth" is a term frequently used by communists".
OMFG what is it with you Americans and your f****** facile political statements. I'm sick of hearing all this crap. Please just read that statement above again and look how naive it is. Obama's not a f****** socialist either because he wants to raise taxes [banghead], its just called tightening the country's fiscal policy.
To those of you that are Pewter Insider's read Kevin Carter bit about American Politics and how much of a farce it is. He's exactly right.
It is hard trying to educate Americans about socialism. They have been brainwashed with the propaganda all these years even though communism fell 20 years ago. They are stuck in the past when it comes to how the world has changed since then (and I would also like to add that communism is an extreme form of socialism kind of like the extreme form of capitalism is a a free and 100% unregulated, anarchistic, chaotic free market which the L's are big advocates of).
Here goes:
*Obama isn't a socialist ( not by the world standard of socialistic democracies).
*The rest of the democracies in the world are primarily socialistic. The only exception to this is none other than the United States.
*There is no such thing as capitalism or socialism being better. Extremes of each are bad for everyone, and when you have a balance of both they keep each other in check ensuring stability. Both type of systems can be undermined by human greed. So one being better than the other is not only misleading, but intellectually dishonest.
*The majority of the people that equate socialism with communism (lol) have a.) Never traveled outside of the U.S. b.) Have never lived outside of the U.S. and c.) Do not have many relatives who live outside of the U.S.
To give an idea of how different the American political spectrum is compared to European lets use Obama, McCAin and Hillary.
If we are to assume Obama is a socialist, McCain a conservative (lol), and Hillary Neo-Conservative with the American political spectrum here is how they would be perceived under the European political perspective:
Obama would be considered a moderate, McCain would be considered a far right winger, and Hillary would be considered right of center.
*Socialist parties are separate from communist parties in Europe. For example in the Republic of Hellenia there is PASOK which is a socialist party, and KKE which is the communist party. If you were to tell someone on the streets that socialism and communism are the same they would proceed to laugh in your face.
Finally, someone with a little sense out there.
