Thread: A Key Question About Socialism

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

... I do believe that the Democrat leadership would love to bring about full socialism. It is a gateway to totalitarian government, and extreme government power is their obsession. Also, even getting close to full socialism would give the government so much power over the people that it would be able to easily go the rest of the way. Politicians are going to be as powerful as the people let them be until the government gets so powerful that the people cannot stop it.

So, I trashed today's dream session by thinking about this answer throughout, and my thoughtful response that would explain that Americans are much different than, say, Russians or Chinese, because the Russians and Chinese people have welcomed totalitarian rule for centuries (millennia for the Chinese), while the U.S. population represents 4 centuries of people escaping that stuff, searching for freedom. So there is no way they would allow 100% socialism to happen here... and then I remembered something my wife often tells me, which amounts to "Take off the F---ing rose-colored glasses, will you?" at fairly high volume, and decided with that that, just as another term of a President Trump might bring in a democracy-ending authoritarian government that I would have never imagined Americans allowing, if the far left comes up with a system of change that quietly moves us toward socialism and a totalitarian state, our citizens might surprise me there as well.

I was just going to give your post a "like" and call it a day, but I thought it might be nice to awkwardly point out that sometimes these conversations do come to some sort of agreement...sometimes!