Schrödinger's Cat
31st August 2007, 22:36
Often this phrase is passed between Rightists and even Centralists. Unfortunately, they have managed to confuse their own bureaucracy with socialism. That is why I like to counter this phrase with something along these lines:
Rightist: Private business does a better job than the government.
Me: People do a better job than private business and the government.
Unless the Rightist you're talking to is a fascist, they'll be stumped.
The PR battle is probably the one thing keeping us back from realizing our potential freedoms. Socialism and communism are smacked with pictures of Stalin, Mao, and Jong Ill, while the beliefs of ML King and George Orwell are scrubbed out of the history books. Economic books distributed to the school systems are defining communism as "authoritarian socialism." The media is portraying Clinton and other centralists as socialists.
The revolution must first be won by spreading the TRUTH.
When someone asks you if I support public education, I tell them NO. Then when they're about to open their mouths in either the affirmative or negative, believing I am just another hard-right conservative/libertarian, I tell them I'm for truly SOCIALIZED education and explain the difference.
Rightist: Private business does a better job than the government.
Me: People do a better job than private business and the government.
Unless the Rightist you're talking to is a fascist, they'll be stumped.
The PR battle is probably the one thing keeping us back from realizing our potential freedoms. Socialism and communism are smacked with pictures of Stalin, Mao, and Jong Ill, while the beliefs of ML King and George Orwell are scrubbed out of the history books. Economic books distributed to the school systems are defining communism as "authoritarian socialism." The media is portraying Clinton and other centralists as socialists.
The revolution must first be won by spreading the TRUTH.
When someone asks you if I support public education, I tell them NO. Then when they're about to open their mouths in either the affirmative or negative, believing I am just another hard-right conservative/libertarian, I tell them I'm for truly SOCIALIZED education and explain the difference.