Do liberals wish for the US to become socialist?

Question

Why or why not?

I guess I am a conservative liberal libertarian! *lol

Never have liked labels

Monkey man.. but citizens of both the UK and of Canada are largely disappointed with their healthcare systems...

Ninanol... I have no party affiliation.

Is it impossible to read my question objectively?

Artimorty. What is it, then? Is it even possible to be objective about it? Ok.. I have lived in Canada and I have stayed in the UK for a summer so I am basing my comments on what I saw while there. Are there polls perhaps? by independent pollsters which reflect how the people feel about their national healthcare programs? I'm not against having a national healthcare but I mistrust freebies by governments because it seems a method of controlling the people, taking away their freedom.

Thank you Steven M.. You seem to have read my question as I intended it

Richard S. I read this article posted by another user this morning and it prompted my question. It makes a lot of sense to me.

http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=47715

Answer 1

Yes. Because they do not like personal responsibility

Answer 2

Can't really see that, since the US perception of what constitutes socialism is far from what it actually is.
I agree with monkey man's comment about the liberals possible desire for America to have a form of NHS similar to the UK.

And i'll think you'll find most of us in the UK are not disappointed with our healthcare since we saw what could happen to it if it went the US way (which Thatcher tried to introduce and that ultimately took her from office) and no one really wants to bleed to death in a hospital waiting room because we don't have a credit card on us.

Answer 3

Nope, but there are a number of Republicans that would love to this country into the next Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy. While other Republicans would like to make America into an Evangelical theocracy where only their kind has the right to vote, the right to live and to be in elected office.

Answer 4

Do conservatives wish for the U.S. to become a feudal society? The "us vs. them" questions that focus on the extremists in any group are more than tiresome distractions. In the long term and on a grand scale, they're dangerous. Why, I wonder, can't people start thinking of themselves as individuals of a single species rather than identifying themselves as belonging to one group set against another? If we can't all start getting together to sort out and resolve the truly important problems (like over reproduction, over consumption of resources, waste, pollution and the unconscionably wide gap between the richest and poorest in the world), the world will shake us off like the virus we've become.

Answer 5

No.

Liberals support a live and let live attitude on social issues (no christian taliban in America thank you very much) and a well regulated capitalist economy with protections for citizens, consumers, and workers from corporate abuse. We also support social programs in education and job training to help level out the playing field.

What we don't want is laisez-faire, law of the jungle, big fish eat small fish, capitalism. That just leads to the rich getting richer and the poor poorer.

Answer 6

No. Their shopping habits suggest otherwise.

What they "want" is for the "party of values" to finally get some ethics and quit shipping our jobs overseas and prepetuating a right wing financial divide.

Hence the liberals are on the forefront of personal responsibility, especially from politicians who are SUPOSSED to be serving the People!

Wanting the American Dream for all and not the lucky few is NEVER "socialist", just patriotic. Get a clue GOP.

Answer 7

No because that was a disaster. I think they want the US to become more like the UK with a national health service.

Answer 8

Yeah I was thinking I'd like to give up my beach house and Mini Cooper and live on a farm collective and repair tractors. I'm sure Hillary would too and all the folks at NPR. We liberals really want to live like they did in the good old days in East Germany. Bill O'Reilly is right about that--he nailed us and found us out.

Answer 9

It certainly looks that way. The stated reasons for a socialist state are often the equalization of income, social status, and political representation, none of which actually happen when put into practice. I tend to notice a more ulterior motive, one which involves obtaining and wielding as much power as possible while telling those over whom one must step to reach said vaunted position that it's for their own good. The Soviet Union was originally started in the name of the common people, and look where it wound up. On a more fictional scale, remember Star Wars Episode III, when Chancellor Palpatine is announcing the formation of the Galactic Empire: "In order to ensure security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire -- for a safe and secure society!"

Answer 10

No Liberals wish America would stop pretending to be free and democratic and start actually living up to it's hot air....

Answer 11

Maybe some do - but I think that many liberals are about political rights than socialism. Many on the right forget that some aspects of the government are already socialist - welfare, social security, medicare, etc.