Ten socialist things you can't live without

[eridani]

http://news.groopspeak.com/bernie-sanders-ends-haters-arguments-against-socialism-once-and-for-all-video/

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) must be one of the gutsiest presidential candidates of our time. Many people feel as though he wouldn’t have a prayer in a general election because Sanders self-identifies as a “Democratic Socialist.”

Many Americans instantly draw a negative connotation from the word “socialist.” This is thanks to decades of propaganda that the corporations have washed over the American people like a perverse capitalist baptism. They sell the “American Dream” telling the poor that they shouldn’t “punish” the rich by raising taxes because someday they could be rich too. For a very long time, I actually bought into that way of thinking myself.

In the above video, Sanders touched on some of the socialist things that Americans refuse to live without. Here’s a list of 10 socialist American programs. You can see more here.

[Enthusiast]

1. Kicked and recommended! Bernie is correct again! Imagine that.

[SandersDem]

2. love it

[daleanime]

3. K&R.....

[marble falls]

4. Let me add one more, one that's keeping me alive and in good health with cancer .....

my health care system: the VA.

[tecelote]

5. Re-post on Democratic Socialism

Democratic Socialism isn't about the state owning everything. It's about regulating businesses, like pharmaceuticals, to balance profit against social welfare.

Democratic Socialism isn't about everyone getting an equal amount. It's about a guaranteed minimum standard. From there, we are free to rise to our own level of inadequacy (go as far as you can go).

What needs to be done now is to show where we have rampant socialism in the wrong direction.

Republicans love socialism as it stands today. They bitch about food stamps but really food stamps are a gift to Walmart stockholders. Every dollar paid in food stamps is a dollar Walmart does not need to pay it's employees. The poor do not benefit, they work to sustain themselves. Stockholders benefit.

Endless war means endless profits. Our tax dollars are making war mongers rich while we are just creating more threats that demand more war.

The task is to show that all Americans deserve the benefits of our tax dollars, not just the wealthy and corporations.

Our infrastructure is crumbling while we build bigger and better war machines for the largest military in the world by far. Wouldn't replacing bad bridges and becoming peacemakers be a better use of our dollars?

Students can't afford college and are burdened with debt before they earn a penny while we bail out Wall Street and allow these rich bastards to keep getting richer. Wouldn't free public college be a better use of our tax dollars?

The tables need to turn and America needs to support its citizens instead of giving corporate takers our money. Yes, it's our money!

Bernie is fighting for Americans against the America we have today that is rigged for the rich and for corporations to benefit.

He's right, we need major change. We need a revolution.

America for Americans.

Time to stop being afraid of a label and look at the substance of what Bernie is saying.

Ironically, many, many Republicans will benefit greatly from a Bernie presidency. Just like the rest of us.

[Javaman]

6. Looking at the polio vaccine, I think the same can be said for the small pox vaccine as well, no? nt