First please understand that all attempts to create 'socialism' or even the promise of socialism has by definition failed completely a priori simply because it fails to end poverty let alone a dynamic creative civilization. Capitalism manages the one but also fails to eliminate poverty.
Managing capitalism is another issue but that is certainly not to be solved by socialist doctrine either. The harsh reality is that all roads to power, including corporate wealth leads to the rationale of authoritarian rule and its hand maiden economic rigidity. Now watch the Chinese Communists attempt to get control of their economy back. It never ends well.
What Trump is doing here is drilling down on the DEMs electoral hopes for 2020. They have, in a moment of weakness allowed the wackos run the zoo and we have runaway socialists loose. Trump will make every opponent stand up and denounce socialism. This is a total loser for all DEMs who want to attract any votes from the middle class.
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Trump Rejects Socialism in Landmark Address
President
Donald Trump, with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence
looking on, delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of
the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol Building in
Washington on Feb. 5, 2019. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)
February 6, 2019
Updated: February 7, 2019
President Donald Trump stood up to a resurgent wave of
socialism in America during the State of the Union address on Feb. 5,
telling Congress and the nation, “America will never be a socialist
country.” The president reviewed his administration’s successes, most of
which have been antithetical to socialism. He charted a course toward
American greatness and away from the failures of socialism.
Since taking office in 2017, Trump has lambasted socialism and
communism on the world stage. On Feb. 5, facing the members of the
Democratic Party—many of whom are socialists—the president confronted,
for the first time, the ideology’s encroachment on America.
“Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” Trump said.
“America
was founded on liberty and independence–not government coercion,
domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free,” he
added, drawing a standing ovation from the Republicans. “Tonight, we
renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.”
As Republicans chanted “USA, USA” in response to the president,
Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist, fidgeted in his seat, his
lips tight and his hand propping up his chin. A small number of
Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, stood up and
applauded.
Trump prefaced his remarks about socialism by pointing to Venezuela, a
once-wealthy nation that has been crippled by socialist policies.
Democrats in Congress have floated similar policies for years and have
intensified the push beginning in the 2018 midterm election cycle.
Prominent members of Congress, including presidential candidate Rep.
Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), are backing socialist policies like Medicare
for All and the Green New Deal that would open the floodgates to massive
government expansion into the health care and energy sectors.
While calls for socialist policies received a significant amount of
media attention during and after the 2018 election, the proposals are
not new to American politics. “Obamacare” nearly achieved the socialist
dream of the total government takeover of the entire health insurance
industry, paving the way toward the goals enshrined in Medicare for All.
Under the guise of progressivism and other causes benevolently named,
socialism–the preliminary stage of communism–has penetrated deeply into
U.S. politics, higher education, the sciences, and culture.
“It
was great to see him throw down the gauntlet and name the problem
because the biggest political problem is the danger of socialism and
communism right now,” said Trevor Loudon, an author and contributor to
The Epoch Times who has spent 30 years researching radical left,
Marxist, and terrorist movements and their covert influence on
mainstream politics.
“A quarter of his audience were socialists, so he was throwing down
the gauntlet to the left wing of the Democratic Party—which is now the
main leading wing—and telling them that their agenda was not
acceptable.”
The Congressional Progressive Caucus was co-founded by Bernie
Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialist. The caucus swelled by 26 seats
after the 2018 election to a roster of 100 members. Many members have
links to the Democrat Socialists of America and the Communist Party of
USA, according to Loudon’s research.
The bulk of what Trump has achieved during his first two years in
office either rolled back socialist policies or prevented the ideology’s
further encroachment on America. The president took steps to protect
religious freedom, insulating again socialism’s promotion of atheism and
attacks on religion. He also spearheaded the passage of a major tax-cut
package and ordered an unprecedented purge of government regulations.
The moves were a major blow to socialists’ moves to expand the
government via new regulations, and to fund that growth by raising
taxes.
“[Trump] sees that America has been rushing toward the socialist
brink for a long time, perhaps since the middle of the last century and
very much accelerated during the Obama presidency, which was scary for
anyone who believes as he does and certainly as I do that socialism is
not going to go,” William Gairdner, an author and independent scholar,
said.
“That was strategic. He wanted to cut the Democrats off at the pass.”
Trump’s choice of Venezuela stood out, considering that examples of
socialism’s failures abound. The president has taken a tough stance on
Maduro’s regime and intensified pressure on the socialist dictator to
step down. In January, Venezuela’s National Assembly declared Maduro’s
presidency illegitimate. Juan Guaidó, the assembly’s leader, stepped
forward as an interim president. Maduro refused to give up control.
Trump immediately recognized Guaidó, triggering a virtual global
referendum on socialism. Free-world nations, like Germany and Australia,
sided with Guaidó. Socialist and communist regimes, like those in
China, North Korea, and Cuba, backed Maduro. Russia, which is not
socialist on paper, has been propping up socialists and communists in
South America for decades. The Kremlin backed Maduro.
This is hilarious. With U.S. local, State and Federal government budgets near $7.8 trillion annually, Trump is suggesting that we are still a capitalist nation and he is rejecting socialism. We have so many taxes and regulations no single person even knows them all.
ReplyDelete1. Our money is no longer free market derived. It's created by creating debt instruments.
2. A central bank is the 5th platform of The Communist Manifesto
3. A wall is a social program attempting to prohibit human migration.
4. A high progressive or graduated income tax is the 2nd platform in The Communist Manifesto
5. We have at least 110 different taxes and regulatory fees American must
6. FNMA, Freddie Mac, FHA and VA lending is all owned and controlled by the Government.
7. The Federal Reserve Bank since 2008 has had to purchase approximately $4.2 trillion in US Treasuries and Mortgage Backed Securities.
8. Our military budget alone is near $1 trillion annually if you add in items such as the Veterens Administration and the intellegence community.
Socialism is predicated on taxation and the redistribution of wealth. The greater levels of redistribution of wealth the more socialistic you society is. The less taxation and redistribution of wealth the more capitalistic your society is considered. So, socialism is really a sliding scale depending on the overall levels of taxation and redistrubtion of wealth as a percentage of production.
Now here's an interesting consideration and misconception. Do we count an F-35 jet fighter as part of total production (GDP) or as an expense to our society? When the U.S. government purchuses a jet fighter for our national defense, that is an expense to our society, yet it still applied to GDP because it is reported by a private or public company as part of their taxable productivity to the IRS and government. Yet it is funded by taxpayers through the social program of national defense.
Donald Trump has no idea what he is generally talking about or he is purposefully attempted to mislead our society. Sadly with him, it is sometimes hard to tell which one. My personal opinion he's a scam artist of the highest degree and he has lots of company in DC.