If you as an American have had enough of ... social darwinism... screwing your neighbor to get ahead... Satanic social ethics... unrestrained greed... inequity... wars for profit.. profits over people... worker enslvement..


And would prefer.. Democracy.. equity... Christian social ethics.. carrying about your neighbor.... better quality of life.. more security... peace of mind... worker self management.... then start breaking up the US propoganda about Socialism. Now.

I can't see how Socialism will solve anything.

Can you elaborate as to what ways it could potentially help?

I think Orwell was a democratic socialist. Just an factoid I thought of...

carry on...

Would you describe you understanding of trickle down economics for us?

And would you tell us what authors have influenced your worldview?

It shoudl be mentioned Democratic Socialists are not against Capitalim. We are for Capitalism.. in it's pure sense.. which requires that people from all economics wlak of life be able to have influence in a free market. The only way this is possible is through a mixture of Democracy as Opposed to Republicanism, Socialism in teh form of Government working for the interest of Society as a whole and not the interests of a select class, and Capitalism.. reformed as it were to that of a NON Social Darwinian wickedness, Regulated enough, but not too much to benefit society more equitably.

I think Sweden does a pretty good job of keeping things market based, but with a good mixture of social programs that work.

They do have one of the highest quality of lives of almost any other country on earth. And their ruling party is the Democratic Socialist Party.

Of course, the Swedish people are more militant than the Us people in actually having a say in their own government.. Something I have leasrned from having a Swedish friend.

It also reminds of the band Enslaved... who might actually be Norwegian though.. but anyways they stole one of throe politicians Sheep... cause they were pissed about Him tryig gto make downloading music for free- legal.. and it was on the news and they never got arrested or anything.. like would happen in the US.

The only Really pure Democracy on earth though is Belgium. A very interesting country to learn about.

dress like abbath, and then steal a sheep!

On a side note, "Venstre" is norwegian for left.

And an old friend of mine came from Belgium.

yea.. the Left in Norway are pretty much Communists.. in the pure sense of the term. The Right are Democratic Socialists. Their is no Right like we have in the US.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for supper.

Dems Die Today, Come November! Mark my Words! Unless the US Economy really starts to change and more good paying jobs some how appear.

The Democratic party has sealed their fate of Doom. A Poll of people on MSN News 67% say they are pissed and angry as everyone knows this was a bad bill with many loop holes and crap tacked on like Abortion funding. Even people who voted for the clown in the whitehouse into office now know what a mistake they made!

I'll bet your wrong 325ad.

This Bill.. whle being too weak and only insurance reform.. is going to be a crdit to the dems, not a liability.

Giving more people access to life saving healthcare is never a political liability .. no matter how many times the word "socialism" and "mau" is used by Fox pundents.

The Republicans were not opposed to this Bill for the sake of the American people. They were opposed top it because the Insurance Industry is opposed to being regulated.

The Republican Party is more and mroe being seen for what they are.. a wholly owned subsidiary of Corporate America.

Why is the government going to fine people who are too poor to afford healthcare?

Isn't that completely missing the point?

i read something about government helping subsidize those who can't afford to pay?

my problem with the health care bill is who's gonna pay for the subsidizing of the people unable to afford it?
It certainly won't be straight out of the government, considering how large our debt is already.
So they'll raise taxes on everyone else, essentially meaning anyone who CAN afford the health care will be paying for themselves AND anyone who can't afford it.