She was excited about universal healthcare which "everyone has a right to." She claimed that socialized medicine in Britain and Canada is a huge success.
She actually said that the "rich people need to give their money away, spread it around." When I stated that it sounds like socialism, she said, "good, just like European countries, finally we are seeing the light."
She was openly praising socialism and welcoming it. What can you say to such people? I want to ship them all to some island where they can share their coconuts.
I spent a few weeks in post-Soviet countries when we adopted our kids in the mid 90s. It may be better there now, but then, it was still horrible.
Maybe Republicans’ money would have been put to better use if we had sent every Obama robot over to live in Russia, Ukraine, etc., to see what their lovely Shangri-la of eternal happiness and peace is really like (one of my stongest memories of this wonderful utopia is the elevators full of broken glass, graffiti and lovely smells that go in such places,praying that the rickety elevator would make it up to the to the floor of our destination, walking into a beat up and depressing apartment or hotel room that looked out into a sea of other cinderblock buildings exactly as old, dirty, run down and depressing that extended for miles and miles and miles and miles, like a whole city of Cabrini Green projects....The sad faces of people along the streets that never smiled, the half empty shelves in stores and surly clerks who could care less whether you bought something or dropped dead on the spot...The whole hopeless and lack of energy of the place) yes, socialism is such a euphoric wonderful thing.
My own brother said, when I sent him some information on Obama, that “politics is of the world, and I’m sorry to see you getting involved in that.” Huh??? What planet are these people from?
I had a co-worker today who was unfazed by the “spread the wealth” argument. She told me she didn’t think she paid enough taxes. How are you supposed to respond to that?