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Democrat Primaries A Microcosm Of Socialist Thinking
GOPUSA ^ | May 6, 2008 | Doug Patton

Posted on 05/06/2008 10:12:20 AM PDT by yoe

As I write this, Democrats in the states of Indiana and North Carolina are poised to express their preferences in the ongoing primary slugfest between U.S. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. Which of them wins is of little importance. What counts, as with all things liberal, is fairness.

A generation ago, Democrats decided that fairness outweighed the need for an orderly process that actually produced a viable candidate for President of the United States. Following the 1968 debacle in Chicago, the party rigged the system so that never again would their bigwigs be denied a voice in the presidential nominating convention.

By 1984, the Democrats had come up with the ridiculous nominating process we see in action this year. It included the "super-delegates" we have heard so much about, unelected delegations consisting of senators, congressmen, governors and other party officials who are guaranteed a seat at the table whether they deserve it or not.

Additionally, in the name of fairness, the party has continued to encumber itself with a set of rules that prevents two equally popular candidates like Clinton and Obama from ever truly winning a primary. In Democrat primaries, there are no winner-take-all elections. This creates a situation where a candidate can win what would, under any other circumstances, be considered a landslide (say, 60-40) and walk away with very few more delegates than the loser.

This arcane system is a microcosm of socialist thinking. In the eternal utopia of the liberal mind, no one should really win or lose. No one should have more than anyone else. Everything should be equally distributed. In fact, equality of opportunity means nothing, while equality of result means everything. Anyone who gets ahead must be penalized. As in their primary elections, no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you prosper, no matter how diligently you plan, you will never get beyond a certain point. To allow you to do so would be unfair.

It is the reason why, in a recent debate, when asked about the capital gains tax, Barack Obama made the stunning confession that he didn't care that raising the tax would actually decrease revenues to the federal government. For him, it is about fairness. He said that!

Similarly, Hillary Clinton is touting a "windfall profits tax" on oil companies to "pay for" the gas tax holiday she wants to give us this summer. It's all about fairness. The oil companies are prospering so they must be punished. Never mind that corporations don't pay taxes; people pay taxes. Oil companies, like all corporations, will simply pass on any tax on their "windfall profits" to all of us at the pump. And when they do, Democrats will be right there to pounce on their "greed." Nothing will be said about government greed.

Both Clinton and Obama want to force you to pay for your neighbor's health care when you can barely afford to pay for your own, even as they try to convince you that it's free for everyone.

This is socialism, pure and simple. Democrats can dress it up and call it anything they want, but we have seen it in action time and again all over the world. The former Soviet Union achieved total equality - meaning that everyone was equally miserable. It doesn't take much of a five-year plan to have an entire country standing in line for a dried-out potato and a stale loaf of bread.

So the next time you hear Clinton or Obama or any other Democrat talk about making the rich "pay their fair share," ask yourself how it benefits you to have the job creators of our society punished for their prosperity. Ask yourself how stifling the growth of our economy helps your lot in life. And ask yourself how a party that is more interested in equality and fairness than in freedom and opportunity can ever lead this country anywhere but onto the ash heap of history.

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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; anticonstitution; barackobama; democratparty; democrats; elections; hillary; hillaryclinton; marxism; obama; shadowparty; socialism; socialistdemocrats
FDR's Socialist experiment was tame compared to today's Marxist march to communism. Our young men and women have little idea of what they are voting for...and what they are about to lose if either the Socialist Democratic candidates win the White House….and a lot of Dem’s are playing the “my party is better than your party” game. The latter are called Useful Idiots.
1 posted on 05/06/2008 10:12:20 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

I’ve read that during the American Revolution, only 1/3 of the population sided with the rebel cause - the other 2/3 were loyalists to the Crown. Suppose a Marxist candidate is elected — we know he/she would consolidate power and steer us into full-blown Communism within 4-8 years. I wonder if a third of our population today would allow that?


2 posted on 05/06/2008 10:23:36 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: yoe

“The former Soviet Union achieved total equality - meaning that everyone was equally miserable.....”

Socialism cannot exist in America because it runs 180 degrees opposite the founding principals of this country!! These two far left whack jobs can smile and laugh all they want, bottom line is they are a serious threat to your individual prosperity, hard work, personal freedoms and individual rights.


3 posted on 05/06/2008 10:27:44 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: yoe

Microcosm of micro-thinking.


4 posted on 05/06/2008 10:32:14 AM PDT by appeal2 (Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but great stupidity is reserved for the Gov't)
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5 posted on 05/06/2008 10:45:03 AM PDT by The_Republican (Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
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To: TexasRepublic

The usual cliche is that after the publication of Thomas Paine’s ‘Common Sense’ in 1776 and the Declaration of Independence, 1/3 of the population of the colonies favored independence, 1/3 favored remaining attached to the UK, and 1/3 were neutral. This is only an estimate as there was no vote taken.

The justification for the 1/3 who favored independence imposing their will on the majority was based on the Enlightenment concept of the ‘National Will.’ That is the theory that the minority embodied the desire of the nation as a whole.

The concept of the National Will was used during the French Revolution and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia to justify a minority taking the power of the state.


6 posted on 05/06/2008 11:24:04 AM PDT by FFranco
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Socialism cannot exist in America because it runs 180 degrees opposite the founding principals of this country!!

That would be one's first impression.

However the changes over the past 50 years in our constitution, or rather the interpretation of our constitution, nullifies that idea.

7 posted on 05/07/2008 6:19:29 AM PDT by JPJones (Cry havoc and let loose the Freepers!)
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