Are You a Socialist?

[longknife]

Take the quiz @ Are You A Socialist Personality Quiz

Says I'm not a socialist – and I wholeheartedly agree!

 

[Carla_Danger]

Yep, I'm a socialist, and I wholeheartedly agree!

 

[longknife]

Yep, I'm a socialist, and I wholeheartedly agree!

You have my deepest sympathies.

 

[regent]

Many Americans like the socialistic programs but hate the word, socialism.
The word does strike some fear in some Americans.
Some believe that too much socialism turns into communism.

 

[Carla_Danger]

Yep, I'm a socialist, and I wholeheartedly agree!

You have my deepest sympathies.

I don't need sympathy. I just know that it takes a healthy, educated society, for a country to succeed. When everyone is doing better, everyone is doing better. I think Eleanor Roosevelt said something along those lines.


Correction: She said, “When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.” You get the gist.

 

[emilynghiem]

I don't need sympathy. I just know that it takes a healthy, educated society, for a country to succeed. When everyone is doing better, everyone is doing better. I think Eleanor Roosevelt said something along those lines.

Correction: She said, “When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.” You get the gist.

Hi Carla_Danger
if some solutions to make society better come from Christian principles and practices,
shouldn't that be exercised in private, by free choice, and not mandated by govt?

What if someone's idea of improving education and society for everyone
doesn't match your idea. If they mandate it through govt, but you believe in other choices,
do you think they still have the right to impose it on you because "the majority" found it better?

If you believe in a better answer, but you are outnumbered by people of opposing beliefs
they are convinced work better for everyone, do they have that right to require that by federal govt?

 

[emilynghiem]

Take the quiz @ Are You A Socialist Personality Quiz

Says I'm not a socialist – and I wholeheartedly agree!

It said I lean socialistic.

I do believe in equal justice and am sympathetic as a progressive.
But with Govt I believe the Constitutionalist stance is equally inclusive so all beliefs, political or religious
are protected equally. Any beliefs that are conflicting can be either exercised in private, or where groups AGREE on policies or solutions, these can be implemented into govt by consent of the governed.

What I don't believe in is abusing either party, media or govt to impose the beliefs of one group
while attacking or denying equal respect and inclusion of others. The poll questions didn't get into that detail.
The other polls that do tend to rate me either Green or Libertarian.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

OK, so you're not a socialist. But it's never to late to make a sharp left turn!

Of course, that's not going to happen. I'm comfortably center right.

 

[Carla_Danger]

I don't need sympathy. I just know that it takes a healthy, educated society, for a country to succeed. When everyone is doing better, everyone is doing better. I think Eleanor Roosevelt said something along those lines.

Correction: She said, “When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.” You get the gist.

Hi Carla_Danger
if some solutions to make society better come from Christian principles and practices,
shouldn't that be exercised in private, by free choice, and not mandated by govt?

What if someone's idea of improving education and society for everyone
doesn't match your idea. If they mandate it through govt, but you believe in other choices,
do you think they still have the right to impose it on you because "the majority" found it better?

If you believe in a better answer, but you are outnumbered by people of opposing beliefs
they are convinced work better for everyone, do they have that right to require that by federal govt?

You've got religion and politics in one big pot, kinda like mashed potatoes.

 

[emilynghiem]

I don't need sympathy. I just know that it takes a healthy, educated society, for a country to succeed. When everyone is doing better, everyone is doing better. I think Eleanor Roosevelt said something along those lines.

Correction: She said, “When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.” You get the gist.

Hi Carla_Danger
if some solutions to make society better come from Christian principles and practices,
shouldn't that be exercised in private, by free choice, and not mandated by govt?

What if someone's idea of improving education and society for everyone
doesn't match your idea. If they mandate it through govt, but you believe in other choices,
do you think they still have the right to impose it on you because "the majority" found it better?

If you believe in a better answer, but you are outnumbered by people of opposing beliefs
they are convinced work better for everyone, do they have that right to require that by federal govt?

You've got religion and politics in one big pot, kinda like mashed potatoes.

Thanks Carla_Danger that's WE'VE GOT not just me or YOU'VE GOT.

I am just calling out the mess for what it is.

The same way prolife views get "called out" for pushing faith-based belief into govt where it doesn't belong.
The same arguments go for pushing other beliefs that the rest of the public "doesn't believe in."

So marriage rights trigger BELIEFS both religious about male/female and spiritual sanctity,
as well as the Political Belief in "right to marriage through the State" and now "States' rights"
as another Belief. All these Beliefs are Supposed to be treated equally under law, but people are emotional about defending their own Beliefs and end up running ripshod over others in desperation to uphold their own.

Right to Health care through govt vs. States' rights is another battle going on.

Just because these "beliefs" take a Secular form, doesn't excuse them from being beliefs
that one group has NO RIGHT to impose through govt onto another group.

If our laws need to specify this more clearly, I believe a Constitutional agreement or resolution is needed on this.

I AGREE with you, Carla, we SHOULDN'T be mixing beliefs in with govt, but that's what's happening.
And that's why people can't resolve it, because nobody is going to change their beliefs just because of govt.
In fact, people fight even harder to defend their beliefs if others keep abusing govt to run them over and out!

 

[jasonnfree]

Many Americans like the socialistic programs but hate the word, socialism.
The word does strike some fear in some Americans.
Some believe that too much socialism turns into communism.

Too much right wingism turns into fascism. Just like Hitler and his crowd, right wing hates unions and gays. They'll still cling to socialist social security in droves though.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Too much right wingism turns into fascism. Just like Hitler and his crowd, right wing hates unions and gays. They'll still cling to socialist social security in droves though.

I kind of wish people understood what Fascism and Nazism really are and what they're really about. I think it ties into the general ignorance of any aspect of WWII other than the body count and the specifically Jewish Shoah of the broader Holocaust. Fascism was meant to be a third way between the right wing, middle/upper class capitalism and the left wing, impoverished Socialist and Communist causes where the state is merged with the corporations, the government is large and powerful, and the people are kept unified by a common culture, a common ideology, and a common enemy. Nazism was a brand of nationalistic Socialism that existed before Hitler and had the reconstruction of Germany as its overarching goal. Hitler remolded it after Fascism after taking over due to his initial status as a Mussolini fanboy. That he eclipsed his early idol to the point where the latter is generally forgotten entirely in any given depiction of the WWII era is just one of history's little curve balls.

 

[Wyld Kard]

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