Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Joseph Karl Obama?? - Top Ten Reasons Why Obama is not a Socialist.



Alot of banter in American politics and amongst the lay general public (some of the things I've seen on Facebook...yesh) have touted Obama as a Socialist. Right Wing pundit Glenn Beck has been shouting this worn tag line for sometime now. Now I'm not going to debate US politics here, I am well qualified NOT to do so. But it pains me to hear such rhetoric bouncing around the heartland of the US of A...especially amongst some of my comrades (oooo....no pun intended!). Fact is, if Obama is a Socialist, then Australian PM Ruddbot is Lenin incarnate (or does he look more like Engels?)...and Sweden should be renamed the United Swedish Socialist Republic. Culturally speaking its so bizarre to see America so fearful of a tax payer funded welfare state (as well as other liberal policies) when you have lived in a country (Australia) where this is the case. Even more bizarre is how people conceive such a system as a blight on their freedom....and a impediment to innovation.

Let's not bore with details on this any further. I asked a friend of mine (near PhD in Pol Science or more correctly Pol Theory) for his top ten reasons why Obama is NOT a socialist. This is what he came up with;

10. He never said "let's rename Guantanamo to Gulag"
9. KGB stands for Kentucky Grilled Bicken
8. He wouldn't rename Washington "Obamagrad"
7. People don't line up for food or commodities, just celebrities
6. You can pronounce his last name
5. He hasn't called North America the "United Socialist American Republics"
4. The Whitehouse isn't called the "Kremhouse"
3. Businesses still screw more people than the government does
2. Fox News is allowed to air
1. People actually have rights

I think you will agree, the list is symbolic. How? It stands as a witness to the ridiculous claims that Obama is somehow secretely turning the USA into the next Socialist state. Anyway, I thought the list was worth sharing, even if it is just a sarcastic rant! For more significant reasons, perhaps you should check out the response of the National Director of the Democratic Socialists of America (a real socialist?), Frank Llewellyn. Perhaps when people actually understand what socialism is, they'll stop making such monolithic accusations.

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