America’s Already Socialist, But Only For The Rich – Not For The 99%
By Robby Berman
To watch directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zq-2cKENOc
If
I wrote that “Bernie Sanders admits
to being a socialist,” nobody reading it would need an explanation of the word
“admits.” “Socialist” is as dirty a word in US politics as “racist” or “bigot.”
And for lots of voters, it’s probably even more of a deal-breaker. When a
Republican really wants to insult President Obama, for
example, he or she calls him a socialist.
The
thing is — as the video makes clear — America is already a socialist
country, but just quietly, and only for the rich and for corporations. So the
insult “socialist” only seems to really apply to things we ask the government
to do for the rest of us.
As
AJ+ puts it:
Socialism. [As it] turns out the dirtiest word in U.S. politics is as American as apple pie. From the U.S. labor movement to the New Deal to corporate subsidies, America relies on a healthy dose of socialism.
Like
it or not, apparently we live in a socialist country.
Robby Berman
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