Who Convinced you to hate Socialism??

Question

have you ever been to a modern socialist country? whats wrong with them? Im not talking about a communist sate but countries with social values like sweden, norway, luxembourg, even france, germany, and switzerland.

Theyre great to me, not doomsday end of the world tyrant controlled hell hole states

Answer 1

Republicans have fostered a totally unreal impression of socialism. They hear that word and all kinds of boogeymen jump out of the closet. They react to the term "socialism" the way that many American used to react to the word "integration" (and many still resist integration).

They don't see vibrant, modern countries that are substantially advanced over the U.S., socially; countries like Sweden or France or Canada. They see Cuba or the old USSR.

They don't get it. They're brain-washed and running on fear. They believe that America is the high-water mark of social advancement... much the way that Russians once genuinely thought their society was superior to all others.

It's pitiful. It really is.

Answer 2

Wow..the ragin cajan guy practically wrote a book. He lambasted the strawman but good. The flaw in his thesis is that no modern country can be anythinbg else but 'socialistic' to some degree. Certain public utilities and 'programs' are essential to the overall well being of the state. I suppose you could have a state based totally on private wealth and public poverty...there certainly are a lot of examples of that around the world. Generally these are what we call 3rd world countries or ;ess charitably...hellholes! The major 'Communist' countries have 'failed' more because they spent themselves to death on trying to military powers with a massive internal police system rather than simply dealing with the ordinary problems of statehood. Not that the 'capitalisitic' US is any slouch when it comes to spending the people's money on a bloated military that can hardly get out of it's own way...unless it has plans to re-fight WW2. True first world countries make certain that human needs are meet..if only to put enough ready freddy at the bottom of the economy so it can perk up through the system. The idea that the US should only fund 'defense' went out with the hoop skirt....I know this won't convince the 'cajan', but that's how it goes...propaganda against progress always seems to work, which is why we have so little of it lately!

Answer 3

Yes. I've lived in Holland, Belgium, visited Norway, U.K. Germany, Luxembourg and socialism isn't all it's cracked up to be. Just ask the Brits about health care and how long it takes to get into a specialist. Socialism puts people to sleep and makes them dependent on the government for everything. Sounds like the democratic(soicalist) party in America. Swedne, once thought to be the Utopia of socialism is now having it's social system collapsing because the bill has come due.

I'll take my freedom and call it good. Socialism, nee dank u wel.

Answer 4

Socialism is Economic Democracy (as long as it's not a one party state like the former U.S.S.R., which was a totalitarian nightmare)

Only when the end of capitalism is on the table will ethics have a seat at the table. ("The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wages System".)

Answer 5

the different element is that in case you upload the populations and GNP of all the international places mutually, they make a pair of million/4 the inhabitants and GNP of the U.S. previous all that, all those international places have solid industry economies. you besides could in all likelihood understand that a place like Sweden has very low company taxes and a few have no taxes on captial beneficial components. And all those international places have homogeneous populations. international comparisons are troublesome. there are in straight forward terms some troublesome and speedy rules. international places with freer economies are notably much continually extra useful than those without. Globalization and prosperity are stongly related. And democracy is going with the two. I don’t dislike socialism. of direction you may desire to have some fee mechanism. I lived in Norway and cherished a lot of its social democratic components. It basically does not artwork in a extensive and distinctive device. And it does not adapt properly to alter. Even in Scandinavia, it breaks down by way of fact the inhabitants gets extra distinctive. between the commerce offs in socialism is integration of variety. this is a tremendous problem for Europeans and why they have such hardship with immigrants. Ours at the instant are not something with the aid of assessment. I enable my rather intelligent chum answer this>>>>>

Answer 6

My Sociology professor who spent 20+ years in that "idyllic" country of Sweden... where there are only 19 STATE APPROVED colors you can paint your house... where you MUST gain APPROVAL from the STATE for the NAME that you give YOUR BABY!!... and those are just 2 examples.

Socialism is not freedom. You love them so much? Fine... live there. No one is forcing you to live in America, if you do. If not... heck, stay there and keep your ideas OUTSIDE of the USA.

Answer 7

Being an American who wants America to stay free convinced me.

Answer 8

What you call socialism, I might call paternalistic.
What aspects of socialism do you admire in the countries that you listed?

Answer 9

A life time of hard work.

Answer 10

No one convinced me to hate them. In fact, my Navy veteran dad raised me to want it here - he always called national health care 'socialized medicine' and said 'i want socialized medicine.'

I do too.