Socialist Party on the Ballot in Delaware
For the first time ever The Socialist Party of Delaware is going to be on the ballot. I am really quite surprised that they were able to get on with the 1% requirement. Jokes may ensue, but do so at your own risk (I’m looking at you RickJ).
I’m not surprised. The Democratic party has gone far enough left that a socialist party is hardly necessary.
Ugh. Mike W. obviously has had one too many doses of Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity today.
Nope. I don’t watch fox news. I’m not even a Conservative.
Actually this party is a little to the left of the socialists. It is the Socialist Worker’s Party which has a Marxist base. Mike W. is right, a plain old socialist wouldn’t do. The Democrats stole their platform years ago. The perennial socialist Presidential candidate said as much himself when he declined to run a couple of elections ago.
The Democrats are hardly far enough to the left.
Socialism bailed us out in the 1930`s, It may well have to come to our rescue again. When basic needs such as food, energy, and health care cannot be meet with middle class pay chk`s than socialism will have to suffice. If trends of the past two years continue, and they show signs of getting worse not better, It will become a reality, although no one will call it by it`s name, they called the new deal back then, it will be socialism.
Well obama’s concept of “rights” is strikingly similar to FDR’s.
http://anothergunblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-credit-card-bill-of-rights.html
Jokes may ensue, but do so at your own risk (I’m looking at you RickJ).
Yeah, but…
Aw, fiddlesticks.
Mike W. I will not dispute that caveat emptor is the way of the world and people should have known what they were getting into, the real problem is with energy, food, and health care costs rising more and more people are finding it hard to make even the minimum payments and are only now realizing how high late charges and overlimit fees can add up. It`s causing a record number of defaults, creating a collapsing house of cards that will affect us all eventually. IndyMac national, one of the largest mortgage lenders in the country just failed moments ago and were taken over by the FDIC. Fifth bank this year, with many more to follow.
Did ‘socialism’ really bail us out in the 1930’s or did that ‘alphabet soup’ diet merely prolong the agony until 1938?
There is always a political advantage in ‘doing something. even if it’s wrong’. It gives the impression that you care. Results are another matter.
Socialism on a grand scale in inherently evil. Look at the fate of Poland and Czecholovakia. They had booming economies before WW II and could be compared in prosperity with Switzerland and Northern Italy. They had been reduced to near subsistence level until the Evil Empire collapsed.
Ireland went on a low tax path and their economy is booming.
Art Downs;
“Poland and Czecholovakia had booming economies before WWII”
Not true in the case of poland, they were mired in the same world wide depession we were. Why else would they send calvary out to meet Hitler`s tanks?
In the case of Czecholovakia, they were suppling Hitler`s army with guns and tanks, otherwise they would have been broke also.
Socialism has never worked, yet liberals seem to think it’ll work “if only the right people are in power.” People like Barack “hope n’ change” Obama.
Actually, we don’t want socialism. We would like more of a safety net for the least advantaged among us, but socialism isn’t the answer.
Who’s got the strawman argument now?
OK, the more PC term would be “social democracy” like we see in the UK and much of western europe. It’s still a degree of socialism.
Yes, it is a degree. There are no pure Capitalist or Socialist societies. Only degrees either way.
And the further towards socialism we move the further away we’ll be from the principles under which this great nation was founded. Socialism and Liberty cannot co-exist together.
We left England to be different than them. I’d prefer we continue that trend.