redstate (conservative) blogger sorting some things out on Socialism. Very interesting
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1) People are not afraid of Socialism, it is an acceptable political outcome.
Well, be honest. The voters have long supported socialism. This country was dominated for 50 years by the New Deal coalition, remember? The Reagan and
Gingrich revolutions were never against the New Deal. They were against the Great Society. Thus, people have never opposed socialism for themselves. People
have for decades wanted free public schools, grants to go to college, retirements, medical care, money to keep their businesses and farms afloat, etc. So in
other words, Americans supported the socialism that benefitted them and people like them. They just opposed it for the other guy. The Great Society was easy
pickings, because it went to a small segment of society that, let's face it, most people didn't like anyway. But the GOP never even seriously tried
to cut off the spigot of the huge amounts of money going to "real Americans." By contrast, the GOP actually gave away more money to their
constituents than the Democrats ever dreamed of giving to their inner city base. Remember when Democrats were pointing out that "red state America"
was a net economic drain while "blue state America" paid more taxes than they spent? It was 100% true, yet the next GOPer who stood up before his
"real American" constituents of suburbanites and middle Americans and told them that they needed to get off welfare and stand on their own two feet
would be the first. No, that was a message for the folks in Barack Obama's inner city, not the Iowans whose economic boom the past few years has been
totally due to the government funded ethanol industry.
The GOP needs to come up with a "no socialism for anybody" message instead of the "no socialism for the people who we don't like and
don't vote for us but plenty of socialism for 'our types of people the real Americans'" message and actions that have dominated the GOP
since 1980.
By the way: small government Sarah Palin actually increased spending in her state. So why did we presume that she supported small government and less
spending? Simple: because she is a Republican from a state that doesn't have a Chicago, Detroit or Harlem in it. That is precisely the problem that I am
speaking of.
Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels
with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
1) People are not afraid of Socialism, it is an acceptable political outcome.
Well, be honest. The voters have long supported socialism. This country was dominated for 50 years by the New Deal coalition, remember? The Reagan and Gingrich revolutions were never against the New Deal. They were against the Great Society. Thus, people have never opposed socialism for themselves. People have for decades wanted free public schools, grants to go to college, retirements, medical care, money to keep their businesses and farms afloat, etc. So in other words, Americans supported the socialism that benefitted them and people like them. They just opposed it for the other guy. The Great Society was easy pickings, because it went to a small segment of society that, let's face it, most people didn't like anyway. But the GOP never even seriously tried to cut off the spigot of the huge amounts of money going to "real Americans." By contrast, the GOP actually gave away more money to their constituents than the Democrats ever dreamed of giving to their inner city base. Remember when Democrats were pointing out that "red state America" was a net economic drain while "blue state America" paid more taxes than they spent? It was 100% true, yet the next GOPer who stood up before his "real American" constituents of suburbanites and middle Americans and told them that they needed to get off welfare and stand on their own two feet would be the first. No, that was a message for the folks in Barack Obama's inner city, not the Iowans whose economic boom the past few years has been totally due to the government funded ethanol industry.
The GOP needs to come up with a "no socialism for anybody" message instead of the "no socialism for the people who we don't like and don't vote for us but plenty of socialism for 'our types of people the real Americans'" message and actions that have dominated the GOP since 1980.
By the way: small government Sarah Palin actually increased spending in her state. So why did we presume that she supported small government and less spending? Simple: because she is a Republican from a state that doesn't have a Chicago, Detroit or Harlem in it. That is precisely the problem that I am speaking of.
http://www.redstate.com/d...e-with-some-myths/#c75462