What objective data do we have that would show Hillary Clinton is a SOCIALIST?

Question

I have come to the conclusion from listening to her that she is a socialist however i prefer not to make this claim without backup. Could socialism be good for the US? Would we call ourselves United Socialist States of America if she is elected?

Answer 1

In 1969 Hillary Rodham wrote her 92-page senior thesis (titled "There Is Only the Fight": An Analysis of the Alinsky Model) on the theories of radical Chicago organizer Saul Alinsky, whose activist tactics and strategies she greatly admired. Ultimately, Hillary's investigation of Alinsky's methods and ideals led her to conclude that the Lyndon Johnson-era federal antipoverty programs did not go far enough in redistributing wealth among the American people, and did not give sufficient power to the poor.

When Hillary graduated from Wellesley in 1969, she was offered a job with Alinsky's new training institute in Chicago. She opted instead to enroll at Yale Law School, where she was strongly influenced by the radical theoretician Duncan Kennedy, founder of the pro-Marxist academic movement known as critical legal studies.

Also in the early 1970s, Hillary developed a close acquaintanceship with Robert Borosage, who would later become a major figure in such leftist organizations as the Institute for Policy Studies, Campaign for America's Future, and Institute for America's Future.

Mrs. Clinton has close ideological ties to the billionaire financier George Soros and his so-called "Shadow Democratic Party," or Shadow Party, which was conceived and organized principally by Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Harold McEwan Ickes. Other key players included Morton H. Halperin, John Podesta, Jeremy Rosner, Robert Boorstin, Carl Pope, Steve Rosenthal, Peter Lewis, Rob Glaser, Ellen Malcolm, Rob McKay, and Lewis and Dorothy Cullman.

From:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18

Answer 2

I do not see Socialism as a bad thing. Unfortunately, many equate Socialism with Communism, and that is just not so. Countries such as Finland, Sweden or Denmark have been run under Socialist Politicians and they are wonderful countries: no wars, no trillion dollar debt, they live in peace.

Charles Fourier was one of the early developers of Socialism he believed that education was a concept that would help develop societies. They believed that Capitalism exploited workers and belittled the working class, like those that worked in the coal mines in England. It's too bad that Marxism is the first thing people think when they think Socialism. And it simply isn't the whole truth--there is another side, and that is where Hillary stands. Please keep in mind it was the Bush family that financed the Nazi party.

Today's Socialism attempts to develop within the perimeter of Capitalism....therefore satisfying both left and right. Socialism without Government interference... something along those lines.

It was Plato that first stated that all men should be equal....and that was along time ago.

The best anyone can do is read as much as possible, and learn why Socialism does not have to equal Communism.... be willing to learn.

Answer 3

I have heard this as well, but I have come up with a new question. How many people truly understand the concept of Socialism? Is this thing that they consider to be socialism really such a bad thing?

Though the concept has been ruined by homicidal dictators, a good look shows an almost impossible utopia in the concept. Human nature ruins the concept.

Is the health care plan indicative of socialism? Sure, but so is the concept of social security that many are fighting to keep. (Social security/ Socialism. They didn't even bother to change the name much.) Is social security such a bad thing? DO you claim thus?

Would we call ourselves the United States of America if she was elected? Yeah. Why not? I mean, to think that a change in health care could bring about a change in the name of the nation is completely preposterous if not laughable.

Answer 4

Just her own words, how she tends to vilify individualism and talk about the entitlements of "the group". Plus her class warfare arguments, and all this point to your standard 1920's Hitler-like demagogue, who was a true socialist.

Could socialism be good for the U.S.? I have no problem with government helping people as long as governmental control doesn't come along with that. There is nothing worse than having your drivers license or healthcare card suspended because you were late on a child support payment or the government has an issue with your tax return.

Bottom line: Socialism leads to government control, and what government can give to you, government can also take away.

Answer 5

Nationalized health care, a plan to give all babies $5k (realized how unpopular that was and cast it aside), plan to match 401k investments, her associations dating back to her college days including that little paper she wrote, her view that it is the collective not the individual and so much more. It is ok to be for socialism, but not ok for socialists to pretend to be something other than that. Where in the Constitution does it authorize the federal government to have its hands into everything like this?

Answer 6

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it’s time to replace an “on your own” society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.

The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an “ownership society” really is an “on your own” society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.

“I prefer a ‘we’re all in it together’ society,” she said. “I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none.”

This sounds remarkably like...Karl Marx!

The problem with people like Hillary Clinton and Karl Marx, who envision for the world a utopia where a central authority takes wealth from the many and redistributes it according to the whims and principles of a few (well intentioned or not), is that it requires us all to put all of our faith and wealth into the government. Which is a bad thing because the more power government gets the more corrupt and oppressive it tends to become. Socialism has an awful history when it comes to well-meaning revolutionaries setting up a centrally-controlled government and economy only to find themselves oppressed by the people they appointed or elected to run it. Even here in America, the birthplace of democracy, we find time and again politicians with too much power abusing that power either to enrich themselves and their friends or punish their enemies.

Giving government more power than is absolutely necessary is folly. It is the road to tyranny and oppression at the hands of greedy government bureaucrats and it must be avoided at any cost.

Yet here’s Hillary telling us that we should abandon individuality, abandon self-reliance, and become more dependent on the government. She’s calling this “shared prosperity,” which means that she’s going to take some of your prosperity and force you to share it with your neighbor, who maybe isn’t even working to create his/her own prosperity.

I wish Hillary and the rest of her big-government liberal colleagues would re-read the Declaration of Independence and note that the founders’ intent in establishing this country was to grant our citizens a right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” No one is guaranteed happiness, but simply the freedom to pursue it. But that’s not what Hillary wants. She wants to try and guarantee everyone in the country happiness, and she’s will to go bankrupt spending your tax dollars to do it.

I also have to take issue with Hillary’s declaration that there be no “special treatment” for any American citizen. I wonder if this means that she’s abandoning her past support of affirmative action policies, which give special treatment to certain students or employees based on their skin color, gender, etc. An enterprising reporter would think to ask Hillary if her “no special treatment” stance includes opposition to things like affirmative action and hate crimes, which make crimes against certain demographics more serious than crimes against others.

Because I don’t think that’s what she means. She still wants special treatment for the victim groups she and her fellow liberals like to pander to.


She is a socialist! and liberals who are obviously to dumb to even connect the dots continue to denie the obvious. If they want to be in a socialist communist goverment controlled state why not just move to Cuba???

Answer 7

Socialism is never good and it has been shown not to work. People just need to wake up and look at history. Or maybe the economic ruin of the the Eastern Bloc isn't enough of an example.

Yes I think Hillary is a socialist after she said in a speech that she wanted to take oil company profits and use it for new energy sources. When asked how to fund her health-care plan she said she wanted to make the insurance companies pay and the rich pay. That is nothing but income redistribution by force( aka taxes) and is a prime example of what socialism is about.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. -Hayek

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good. -Rand

Answer 8

That depends alot on what you consider socialism, if you considr the anytime the government takes resources (taxes) from the colective citizens and then distributes that resource (money) to provide services socialism. Then you would logically consider the FBI, military, SEC, FAA, FDA, HIghways, etc., socialism too.

Answer 9

In her own words, Mrs. Clinton shows she is a socialist. Socialism would not be good for the US. It does not work every time it is tried.

Answer 10

Don't use words of foreign origin if you don't undestand their meaning. Same applies ot all words longer than three letters. This would make you look less stupid.