Sunday, April 19, 2009

ON SOCIALISM – OR IS IT FASCISM?

In a comment thread about the lack of media attention to the attendance at the national “tea parties” on Wednesday, Tim notes (scroll down):

When the net “takers” outnumber the net “contributors” in our society ... [s]ocialism will rule. Clearly the agenda in Washington is to maximize the number of “takers” that can be created. The flaw in their design (as there always will be one) is that eventually they will eliminate all the contributors.

I’m certainly sympathetic to the thought, but based on the Webster’s Dictionary definitions, I lean a little more toward a fascist interpretation of the Obama admininstration philosophy – (a) centralized government control of private enterprise and (b) suppression of any opposition.

I’ll blame Obama for the first; the mainstream media seems to be doing its best to achieve the second.