01-24-2019, 01:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-24-2019, 01:36 PM by Eric the Green.)
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The American Right was opposed to the Soviet Union and its Communist system for obvious reasons. As an older American, you should be able to know and understand those reasons. If not, here's a reason, every American citizen (regardless of their economic status/class and political affiliation (Republican or Democrat) who own property like homes, farms, business's, land of any kind, cabins and so forth would no longer have a right to own them because the individual freedom and financial means to do so wouldn't exist under the Soviet Union and it's Communist system. Every blue minded poster should be able to read this and hopefully learn why the 99% approach doesn't ever work for them within the US like it could/should be able to within some poor Latin American countries that haven't been torn apart and ravaged by cival war's between Communists and Fascist Regimes or dictators.
The American Left was also opposed to the Soviet Union and its Communist system. Before the sixties and the end of the Vietnam War, it was the Democrats who waged actual war on them. Meanwhile, the Republicans like McCarthy and Nixon spent most of their "anti-communist" energy on taking away our basic rights that Americans hold dear, and resisting the movements to expand those rights.
Here is what the Left says about America and the totalitarian systems:
The Republicans have opposed the rights of Americans. Trump tries to suppress our rights. But we on the Left are not going to let them turn us around.
The Republicans are only concerned with property rights and lower taxes, and about suppression of the immigrants and lower classes whom they blame for the economic pressures that affect them, and about opposing the government that seeks to make the economy fair to everyone, rather than only to that .01% of the people that Trump and the Republicans are concerned to protect. The Democrats protect union rights, and Republicans oppose them, so workers are still in the right camp if they are Democrats. The Democrats enforced immigration laws already; Trump's campaign against immigrants was merely a campaign gimmick to appeal to your mis-directed fear and anger, and it works on that level. A fair immigration system would protect rights and work well for all; the Republicans in the House stopped it from happening.
The 99% approach always works, and the 1% trickle-down Republican Reaganoid system never does. The 99% approach only seeks equal opportunity for all. It is opposed to a Communist system that would take all property rights and all other rights away, and vest them in an oligarchic elite of political operatives. That system does not work well for the people either. It may protect equality for most of the people, including gender equality, and sometimes ethnic equality (but often deliberate ethnic oppression), but it is equality at a low level.
Greens, Democrats and progressives are true Americans. Those who protect the rights of a few to exploit the many are not. A fair system that makes sure that people get a fair wage for their work, and that people are protected against the frequent capricious and destructive behavior by capitalist pigs, is not a Communist system. It is a mixed system that protects our ability to engage in free enterprise and to have equal opportunity.