Sounds like a logical opinion with all the hateful rhetoric we have had to endure during the last two years since Obama was elected to the highest office in the land.

The Republicans cannot stand the fact that a Democrat took power away from them and what is more stuck in their crawl is the fact that he happens to be black. They try to paint him as a liberal (which he is not), they try to say he is not an American (which he is), they try with all their might to accuse him of being a Socialist (which of course he isn’t but it would do well for all us working class if he leaned just a little bit toward socialism instead of towards Corporate Control) They (the Republicans) do this to get all the hardcore bigots aroused so they might help them gain back their power (Sad for all of us that it works so easily) Below is a little bit of enlightenment on Socialism and what the Opposite looks like:

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Is the USA Becoming a Socialist Country? What is the Opposite of Socialism? by Vince Robertson
I continue to hear accusations that President Barack Obama is making our great country a socialist country. I would like to explore this debate. Many times over the past 6 months I’ve heard the argument that Big Government is the precursor to socialism and ultimately communism. This is certainly un-American! Those making the argument typically take the position that if socialism and communism are on one end of the spectrum, then we who love God and country should run as fast and as far as we can to the other end of the spectrum. In my crude, text-graphic format, this is what the spectrum looks like:
<—–|————-|———— ———————————-
Communism Socialism ———————->Run!!! ->

Let me be clear, I am not making the case for communism nor for socialism, but I believe that clear thinking individuals need to understand the complete argument.The facts are that there are opposites of communism and socialism, and I propose to you that the opposites are class oppression and slavery. Class oppression, or classism, is defined as mistreatment on the basis of socioeconomic class. Slavery is blatant abuse and oppression to the benefit of the master. Understanding this, the spectrum is more accurately represented as:
<—|————|—————- —————-|————|—>
Communism Socialism ————–>Classism ——Slavery

When this is understood, the question is no longer how far do we as Americans want to get away from Communism, but rather where is the proper balance? I believe this is the heart of the intelligent debate. (intelligent being the operative word)
READ MORE HERE: http://kerplop.com/Post461986-Whats-The-Opposite-Of-Socialism-Is-The-Usa-Becoming-A-Socialist-Country.htm

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Anyway, TV has offered up many different slants on this tragedy in Arizona and I being one who would rather hear rationality than misrepresentation (mendacity on Fox News) gathered my information from those (with truth on their side) who delivered A VOICE OF REASON. Here are a few that I have uploaded to my youtube channel for a bit of TV’s look into the causes of this catastrophe brought on by society’s failures. thinkingblue

First up is Democracy Now’s Look At This Human Tragedy:\

Now for Ed Schultz’s VOICE OF REASON.

And Finally Keith Olbermann’s VOICE OF REASON With His Special Comment.

They say the hatred has spewed from both sides of the aisle but I haven’t seen it that way. So much malevolence and bigotry has been spawned by too many leaders of the Tea Party that any sane mind has most assuredly felt as though it might (and has) erupt in some sort of violence.

Is only the Republican Tea Party at fault? The Republican leaders outside the Tea Party should also share in some of the blame. Blame because they remained silent during all the hateful rhetoric from the likes of the Palins, Becks and Limbaughs.

Do you think that with all this mayhem and extreme grief there will come a day of reckoning and those who allowed (and encouraged) such hate to spill forth will feel shame?

I think not!

Oh, maybe for a short period while it circulates the Internet and is touched upon by mainstream media but when the dust settles, their chicanery will again return and perhaps it will be even more aberrant because the bottom line is winning.

WINNING AT ALL COST!

The saddest part of this equation is the fact that they have so large an audience; quite an adoring “crowd” that is so full of hate that they hunger to find a victim they can thrust all their sick revulsion upon; And right-wing talk radio, Fox news and the leaders of the Tea Party movement eagerly try to conjure up a victim to placate their flock (remember Bill O’Reilly’s excessive chant “Tiller the Baby Killer”).

No one wins though, not the suspected shooter, Jared Loughner, for sure not the instigators, not any of us who wish to live in a civilized place have won, we as a nation are all losers! America has turned on itself and divided we fall. thinkingblue.blogspot.com

Tucson rampage casts light on toxic political tone

By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Charles Babington,Associated Press – Sun Jan 9, 1:24 am ET

WASHINGTON – Politicians of all stripes are bound to be
haunted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ warning, 10 months before she was shot, to cool the rhetoric.

It’s been a year or more of raw politics, with anger spilling
over on both sides and gun-related metaphors coming loosely from the lips of some candidates and activists. Giffords, a figurative target of the right, on Saturday became the actual target of a gunman who shot her through the head and killed at least five others. She was critically wounded.
The gunman’s motive is not known.

But in Pima County, Ariz., Sheriff Clarence Dupnik suggested “all this vitriol” in recent political discourse
might be connected to Saturday’s shootings. “This may be
free speech,” he told reporters, “but it’s not without consequences.”

Whatever the motive, the toxic tone of the national debate is certain to draw greater scrutiny.

“We do know that politics has become too personal, too
nasty and perhaps too dangerous,” said Jonathan Cowan,
president of the centrist Democratic group Third Way.
“Perhaps out of this senseless act some sense can return
to our public discourse.”

In the aftermath of the rampage, the House’s newly installed Republican leaders postponed Wednesday’s scheduled vote to repeal the new health care law, the issue at the center of the harshest criticisms of Giffords and many other Democrats for the past two years. Lawmakers from both parties were deeply shaken.

Many lawmakers, especially Democrats, felt the 2009-2010
debate over health care sometimes got out of hand. It began with emotional town hall meetings in the summer of 2009, when some critics warned of government “death panels.”

Giffords, 40, was among lawmakers who reported 42 threats or acts or vandalism in the first three months of 2010, a big increase over the previous year, law enforcement officers said. Nearly all the threats dealt with the massive health care bill that Giffords and other Democrats enacted over fierce Republican opposition.

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