Socialism always fails, but it’s very successful at creating self-perpetuating regimes. Fidel Castro had pretty Cubanas brought to him every day for his pleasure, and owned 100 luxury cars from around the world. For him and his regime, socialism has been a giant success!
I’m enjoying this thread!
I suspect there will be many more similar to this before long.
Socialism looks good to a lot of people. For instance, to people who are paying a lot for health care, *free* health care like folks on welfare get looks great. There is a large group of people who work and pay taxes who want the government benefits that people who don’t work get.
There are many, many people who do not know what the U.S. Constitution says, or what it means.
There are many folks who do not understand what has caused so many U.S. companies to move their jobs to other countries.
I will spare you the endless litany of what the American public, as a whole, does not understand or know.
I think it is time for the Republican Party to run a huge, 4-year, public service advertising campaign to educate the public, using short, simple words to distill major concepts into understandable bits.
While they are at it, a long series of PSA’s needs to be run to reform the image of the Republican Party. Short and snappy sound bites are needed. I have talked with many people who voted for Obama because the country needed “hope and change”. Period. No other reason — voting choices dictated by a slogan.
The way I see it, we have 4 years to campaign and to educate the American public. Hope and change are not coming, at least not to the benefit of our country, and it is time to step into the breach.