In case you are not familiar with human history, Socialism has NOT worked anywhere!! Bernie Sanders is a card carrying, self-proclaimed Socialist. The American people are fed up with these far Left ideologies which don't work. The United States has a Constitution which above all, proclaims liberty and justice for all. Socialism goes against that very principle, which is why the American people should reject it out of hand!! Hillary Clinton can not be trusted, and is an evil power-hungry hypocrite. The only alternative is from the Republican side, and while I do agree that we as a nation are fed-up with the status quo, I think only strong leadership will bring us out from this mess. I am voting for Donald Trump for that reason. He is not a politician, and he's built a billion Dollar empire, therefore he can not be bought. That's what we need now!! I'd like to see either Nikki Haley or Ted Cruz as his running mate.
Socialism has worked in several countries. The Netherlands, Denmark, etc., as examples. It only fails when you eliminate capitalism as an economic force. Or when you establish a Plutocracy that favors the rich as we are allowing in this country. In case you had not noticed, capitalism is failing in this country not because of socialism, but because the working class are not being allowed to keep the profits from what they produce. 60% of the wealth created in this country goes to the 1%, 80% goes to the top 10%. This then creates a need for more social services, and more poverty. And the middle class is the one paying for it while the 1% profit from it.
Consider reading this, and then think about what it means:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/04/founding-fathers-warned-inequality.html
The Founding Fathers Fought Against Inequality
Posted on April 21, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and James Madison Slammed Runaway Inequality
The primary author of the Constitution – and later president – James Madison wrote:
The great object [of political parties] should be to combat the evil: 1. By establishing a political equality among all. 2. By withholding unnecessary opportunities from a few, to increase the inequality of property, by an immoderate, and especially an unmerited, accumulation of riches. 3. By the silent operation of laws, which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigence towards a state of comfort.
He also said:
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Nine months before his inauguration as America’s first president, George Washington wrote:
[America] “will not be less advantageous to the happiness of the lowest class of people, because of the equal distribution of property.”
