How Many of You Feel The USA Is Communistic ?

Question

I do alot,so does my husband & our son,my father also feels the same way.

Answer 1

Compared to Russia it is. In Russia you get to keep your wealth, you don't pay 60% tax (fed, state, city, FICA) when you earn it and another 55% when you die and leave it to your heirs.

Forbes 400 Richest is just out, and the Bush team is committed to not letting any of the rest of us join their cronies on that list -- all billionaires.

And they're devaluing the dollar day by day with deficit spending. Expect queues and wheelbarrows in your future, just like the old Soviet Union.

They SAY they want small government, but in fact government is leaving the big guys alone and snooping more and more on the little guy. The USA will be a police state in ten years.

Answer 2

With the advent of political correctness, yes. As far as anything else? Maybe. I'm tired of my religion coming under attack because someone else is an atheist. I certainly don't bring law suits to court over the pagan holidays and symbols or Muslim holidays and symbols or Jewish holidays and symbols.... so when will Christians be able to celebrate their holidays again without being censored i.e. not Christmas break now it's winter break (sounds pagan) or Spring break instead of Easter break and the removal of crosses and the Ten Commandments on public property. I pay taxes too and maybe I'd like to see some reminders that the U.S. was founded on freedom of religion- not freedom from religion. I marvel at those who supported Clinton but don't like religious connotations to anything in politics. When I find someone like that I always say, "So because Clinton openly admitted he was a Christian and went to church we should go back and undo everything that he did- right?" They usually aren't amused but they get the point. You can try to take religion out of the public square but you can't take religion out of the person or politician.
The only other example of us headed down a communistic path would be when it comes to national programs like social security and the hopefully never accepted national health care. I read Clinton's health care plan and it steeped of communistic tactics... i.e. only 1 eye exam every 2 years. So what happens if your eyes start to go bad 6 months after you've seen the optomitrist? Too bad- no more visits for another year and a half.
We have to be ever vigilant when it comes to these encroachments of our freedoms or communism is exactly what we will end up with.

Have a great day!!!

Answer 3

The ideas of Communism have endured throughout the world. Any system of government can work, even a dictatorship can technically work. It's how the leaders handle things and how corruption destroys the basis of what it was trying to accomplish. Human greed can never be governed.

I don't like questions that are stated as the "USA". If you want to rephrase that into "How many of you feel the national governing bodies of the US are leaning towards a communistic regime?", I'd better understand. The "USA" implies every aspect, every person, as a whole, which would include local and state legislation, and by that I wholeheartedly disagree with you.

Answer 4

They might be right...I always thought Fox and Pravda seemed very similar.....

OK...a little more than a smart alecky comment. Look, I've been in a Communist country - East Germany and Czechoslovakia. I have been approached by a Czech Secret Policeman and I have been face to face with machine gun toting East German border guards. I have been followed by East German plain clothes policemen who followed me and other American students to the suburb of Panchow (sp?), where we had a dinner meeting at a local Lutheran Church and discussed the lack of freedom and the many oppressions faced by openly Christian East Germans. It was a night of fellowship I will not soon forget. And I will never forget trying to find the exit to Checkpoint Charlie at 10:00 PM with only 2 hours left on my visa.

So it with great certainty that I express to you that in no fashion is the United States of American even remotely communistic. And I thank God for that.

Answer 5

I think you are more right than most people would like to admit. The news is totally censored to say whatever government wants you to know. More and more rights are being slowly taken away. The government decides to do things on its own, no matter what (Iraq, is a good example). All this sounds to me more like communism than a democratic society. I am from Canada originally and have no problem saying that it is more socialist up there. At least the people have health care and their government takes care of them. Down here it seems like a "free for all". I've gotten used to it, that's why I've stayed, however, it doesn't change how I feel. Yes, I would have to agree with you on this one.

Answer 6

There has been a push that direction for 30 years.

I blame public education. Try sending your child's supplies to school with his name written on them with Sharpie! These supplies are put in communal storage for all the children.

What do we think we are teaching our children? Not sharing, because sharing is a voluntary act. Not soft-heartedness, because no one wants to have something taken away from him by an adult and given to another child.

It's subtle and pervasive, and it begins in kindergarten.

Answer 7

I think its turning into a police state. Pretty soon it will be mandatory to carry national i.d.'s like they do in France. I guess its beginning to resemble Cuba with its if you don't support the president you hate America attitude amoung many.

I see where people can feel like that.

Answer 8

Not yet.....YET being the key word. I believe that things are happening that we have no say in, that our founding fathers did not want for this country! They would be appalled!!! The reason that our country is in so much trouble is because of the way it's being run. Wouldn't you agree??

Answer 9

Not me.

For starters communism requires a vicious, brutal totalitarian regime to enforce it. End of story.

Answer 10

Only when it comes to the political/voting process or rule & control over Money/Power/Wealth!