Friday, March 6, 2009

Right or Left

It tickles me to witness the rush of certain political figures to claim they are of "The Right." Joe Scarborough wants the country, if it won't be "right," at least to be "center-right." And Oh! No!, Obama is taking us "center-left." It will be the end of civilization!
You think?
Consider that the "right," politically speaking, is what the Nazis were. Fascism produced the "Corporate State," the marriage of government and business. Their opponents, the Soviet Communists, were the "left." Socialism is called "Left." And many Americans equate socialism with Communism.
Communism is nothing like socialism. In fact, communism is more like capitalism, with the national wealth unjustly distributed to the few, the aristocracy (in a democracy?) of wealth. I guess our founding fathers couldn't protect us from the rule of the money elite...sadly.
Soviet Communism was, quite simply, just another form of tyranny. Neither the Nazis nor the Communists had any real regard for mankind. And their leaders were madmen - Hitler, Stalin. (They had to be mad, didn't they?)
Now socialism is a society of people where everyone is considered a cell of the national body, and every cell must be kept as healthy as possible, shouldn't they?. Certain amenities would be free, among them: health/dental care, education and care of the aged. Shouldn't they?
Full employment would be implemented, at jobs meaningful to the worker, and to the country, at living wages. (We have to do this if we are going to have a "money" economy; I mean, people have to have money to survive! Don't they?)
We are all in this thing of "LIFE" together...and we're all equally important (but in different ways). We get more good things done as a "community" than as a group of hogs at the trough. Socialism is where our equal rights to the basic amenities of LIFE are made real, so that as many children of America as possible (regardless of age) can be fulfilled and nurtured, and have smiles on their faces.
I know I've made "socialism" sound horrible, and it can be criticized as too helpful to too many people, wanting everyone to have the basic human needs freely available. Terrible, terrible! Those "lefties" are just plum crazy...madmen. Or not!