Mirrored Delusion: Conservatives' Nightmare/Progressives' Dream Dissident Voice
For many months I have been astounded by the absurdity of those Americans who equate Obama’s Private Insurance Bailout Bill with Communism or Socialism. A reader of an op-ed piece of mine wrote me explaining she had demonstrated against Obama’s health plan because she was opposed to Socialism. I said she must mean “National Socialism,” and I’d protest that too. A government that legislates increased profits and price deregulation for the nation’s largest Capitalist corporations, while passing laws that require the entire population to purchase the products of those particular for-profit enterprises, is more often associated with Fascism — particularly when the national economy is dependent upon military production and requires cuts in social welfare programs, public infrastructure maintenance, and workers’ real wages.
Why would anyone label “Socialist” an administration occupied by the recycled big shot representatives from prominent Capitalist enterprises — preoccupied with bailing out Capitalist financial institutions and other too-big-to-fail manufactures at the expense of worker’s benefits and savings? Well, I finally got an answer that does make some sense, however much I may disagree. The argument for why this new health insurance law will lead to Socialism is now being articulated with complete confidence on the nightly conservative talk-radio. It goes like this:
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