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if you've listened to my various rants over the years, you most likely think i'm something of a communist, or perhaps a fascist, maybe a jigoistic american imperialist, or just generally a racist inconsiderate bastard. Now, some of that may have been trolling and the like, some of that might have been the real me, but I'd like some honest opinions here.
I am mainly a Socialist at heart. whatever nominclature you choose to assign to that is your call. I simply believe that social and political equality cannot be achieved without economic equality.
Now, thats highly debatable, but thats what i believe. so take it as you will. I simply believe that the rich have much more power than the common man in america, and i despise that fact with my very being. i see rich people somehow getting off the hook over and over again, whenever they get into trouble. i see the rich people runing thosands of lives and getting off nearly scott free (enron). politics is simply a rich man's game.
this has led me to a conclusion, which has gotten me much trouble in my little politically involved group of friends, which is simply that america may be called a democracy (or republic, if you will), people may be able to elect their leaders, but we are far from the "equality" that we appear to praise above all. i simply believe that the american government is a plutocracy, a government by the rich. i have coied the term in my little group, "a generious plutocracy", where the ruling rich upper class gives us whatever liberties and rights we want, so long as we do not infringe on their business too much.
again, this will be debated and torn to pieces by one side, and built up by another, but again, this is what i believe.
the problem is, the simpliest "argument"against anything like that, anything that badmouths america, is "if you don't like it, you can go someplace else". the sad thing is, this is the best that we have. even though i sit here and become disgusted by the huge gaps between rich and poor, and complain about how the rich seem to do whatever they want and get off, my life is good. there are no warlords killing millions of people. no major civil wars claimig civilians. i do not fear my government. and that, it appears, is enough for most people, enough for me.
so, here i am, loathing the system i exist in, but happy that i exist in it. i'm sickened by the very country i love.
now, that was deep, for me anyway, which leads to a little mroe shallow a problem, defining myself a clear ideology. i've just goe through life professing to be a communist, because it was an attention getter, the word makes people listen. Socialist doesnt have the same kick, but thats another discussion.
capitialism just seems, to me anyway, to go against everything america professes to stand for. to quote NoFx, "When one makes twenty million, ten thousand others lose".
i could go on and on, at length, on both why i am a socialist, and why i love america with all of my heart. am i wrong in doing so?
I am mainly a Socialist at heart. whatever nominclature you choose to assign to that is your call. I simply believe that social and political equality cannot be achieved without economic equality.
Now, thats highly debatable, but thats what i believe. so take it as you will. I simply believe that the rich have much more power than the common man in america, and i despise that fact with my very being. i see rich people somehow getting off the hook over and over again, whenever they get into trouble. i see the rich people runing thosands of lives and getting off nearly scott free (enron). politics is simply a rich man's game.
this has led me to a conclusion, which has gotten me much trouble in my little politically involved group of friends, which is simply that america may be called a democracy (or republic, if you will), people may be able to elect their leaders, but we are far from the "equality" that we appear to praise above all. i simply believe that the american government is a plutocracy, a government by the rich. i have coied the term in my little group, "a generious plutocracy", where the ruling rich upper class gives us whatever liberties and rights we want, so long as we do not infringe on their business too much.
again, this will be debated and torn to pieces by one side, and built up by another, but again, this is what i believe.
the problem is, the simpliest "argument"against anything like that, anything that badmouths america, is "if you don't like it, you can go someplace else". the sad thing is, this is the best that we have. even though i sit here and become disgusted by the huge gaps between rich and poor, and complain about how the rich seem to do whatever they want and get off, my life is good. there are no warlords killing millions of people. no major civil wars claimig civilians. i do not fear my government. and that, it appears, is enough for most people, enough for me.
so, here i am, loathing the system i exist in, but happy that i exist in it. i'm sickened by the very country i love.
now, that was deep, for me anyway, which leads to a little mroe shallow a problem, defining myself a clear ideology. i've just goe through life professing to be a communist, because it was an attention getter, the word makes people listen. Socialist doesnt have the same kick, but thats another discussion.
capitialism just seems, to me anyway, to go against everything america professes to stand for. to quote NoFx, "When one makes twenty million, ten thousand others lose".
i could go on and on, at length, on both why i am a socialist, and why i love america with all of my heart. am i wrong in doing so?
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