(ThyBlackMan.com) I like Bernie Sanders. He seems to be non-calculating, and he talks common sense. The same is true of Elizabeth Warren, and I think they would make a great ticket. In fact, the perfect ticket. The only problem is, Bernie Sanders is a self-avowed Democratic Socialist, and the American people have a knee-jerk response to the word “socialist.”
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Americans have been conditioned by capitalists to revile the word “socialism,” even democratic socialism. They associate it with despotism and closed societies. So the people simply have to be educated into a better understanding of the “isms.” They have to be educated to understand that both socialism and capitalism can be either good, or toxic if taken to extremes. And at this point, capitalism has gone way off the reservation. According to a
Princeton study it has destroyed American democracy. That’s right. Princeton University has done a study that has declared that America is no longer a democracy. It is now an oligarchy, completely controlled by the rich ( http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746).
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In addition, capitalism is responsible for the genocide of as many as 100 million Native Americans (6 generations over 100 years), slavery and Jim Crow, America’s current economic plight, and it threatens to destroy the planet by placing profits before science. Democratic socialism, on the other hand, simply means to have the common sense to give people priority over corporations, and between now and the next election the people can be educated to that fact – especially when they’re hungry and economically depressed.
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With regard to Hillary Clinton, I don’t dislike her, but I don’t completely trust her either. She’s much too careful and calculating. She far too remote from the people, and far too much of a political animal for my taste. She gives me the impression that she’s much more interested in attaining the office of the President than she is helping the people. In short, she’s much too mechanical, and she doesn’t seem to have any real passion. Her passion seems to be manufactured. She strikes me as all ambition, and the people are merely an afterthought that she’ll make every effort to help, if it’s convenient. In addition, I haven’t forgotten that she’s a former Goldwater Republican, and I’m also very uncomfortable with her association with the Bilderberg Society. I don’t like secret societies – especially when they’re trying to control the world.
Americans have been conditioned by capitalists to revile the word “socialism,” even democratic socialism. They associate it with despotism and closed societies. So the people simply have to be educated into a better understanding of the “isms.” They have to be educated to understand that both socialism and capitalism can be either good, or toxic if taken to extremes. And at this point, capitalism has gone way off the reservation. According to a
Princeton study it has destroyed American democracy. That’s right. Princeton University has done a study that has declared that America is no longer a democracy. It is now an oligarchy, completely controlled by the rich ( http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746)..
In addition, capitalism is responsible for the genocide of as many as 100 million Native Americans (6 generations over 100 years), slavery and Jim Crow, America’s current economic plight, and it threatens to destroy the planet by placing profits before science. Democratic socialism, on the other hand, simply means to have the common sense to give people priority over corporations, and between now and the next election the people can be educated to that fact – especially when they’re hungry and economically depressed.
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With regard to Hillary Clinton, I don’t dislike her, but I don’t completely trust her either. She’s much too careful and calculating. She far too remote from the people, and far too much of a political animal for my taste. She gives me the impression that she’s much more interested in attaining the office of the President than she is helping the people. In short, she’s much too mechanical, and she doesn’t seem to have any real passion. Her passion seems to be manufactured. She strikes me as all ambition, and the people are merely an afterthought that she’ll make every effort to help, if it’s convenient. In addition, I haven’t forgotten that she’s a former Goldwater Republican, and I’m also very uncomfortable with her association with the Bilderberg Society. I don’t like secret societies – especially when they’re trying to control the world.
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Staff Writer; Eric L. Wattree
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