Stigma of Being a Socialist

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All this nonsense between Obama & McCain on who is a Socialist and who isn’t, brings up some interesting paradoxes. I mean here you have two religious men, battling it out for the Presidency, and it may turn on a simple desire to ’spread the wealth around’ which is being construed as somehow being wrong, as being a secret plot to increase taxes for the poor, the middle class. If you listen to John McCain or Sarah Palin, then you have to really think Barack Obama is something loathsome.

If you listen to Barack Obama & Joe Biden, well you have to see the Evil Empire being reflected in the faces of John McCain & Ms. Palin. Problem, is, no one is discussing the policies so much as the nuances of the words. Then too, there is this whole ‘socialist‘ bullshit. I mean come on, the Republicans claim to be the Moral Party, the one most in tune with the accepted religious beliefs of America, but are they?

They give BILLIONS to Big Business, deride those who want something like health care for everyone, not just those who can afford it. They attack those who believe that War should be an absolute last resort, as being Unpatriotic, as being Godless. Yet, if you examine religion, you have to see that what the Republican Party is preaching, is no where near what Jesus preached, what any of the main religions teach, including Islam.

You have the religious fanatics of the Republican Party yelling about how McCain isn’t quite conservative enough for them, that they prefer the idealism of a Mitt Romney who supports no abortion under any circumstances, including Rape.  These same people support the use of Water Boarding to gain intelligence to protect themselves, while at the same time calling into question those who oppose torture for any reason. They claim support of Troops, while shelling out Billions to firms who quickly sell their products to the very enemies being fought, and call that ‘smart business‘ or in the case of Bush, ‘free trade‘.

Bullying of people who are different is wrong, according to them, unless of course those being bullied are perceived to be outcasts according to their religious beliefs. Yet it is the very doctrine of Christianity, that it was those who society called outcasts, that were to be welcomed and sought after, for God’s love. Strange how these so called Christians forget those precepts.

They attack a man, who wants to insure that the more wealthier help those less fortunate, and that makes him evil, makes him a Socialist. and yet that is one of the very basic principles of Christianity, to be ‘one’s brother’s keeper‘. It amazes me how a Party that spends Hundreds of Billions to bailout a select few, won’t spend a nickel to help the millions being hurt by those few. How they claim to be the party of the masses, while helping to take away their only source of achievement, their homes.

These are the same people who profess their true belief in GOD, yet deny the single most important freedom of all, the one of Free Will, that their GOD gave them, but which they try to deny for others who simply do not accept their interpretation of GOD. Yet that makes them right, everyone else wrong, and to that end, they will take kids from schools, force their wills on others by threats, by attacks, by spreading hate.

This is the Republican Party of today, not the Party of Lincoln.

Ian @ October 24, 2008