This land is a war zone. Typically, we sleep while we eat and we feed what we can't beat. This country fuels it's own fear;
you make
you scared. All they ever wanted was a place for being stubborn. Our forfathers built this nation just to tear it down. The liberties they searched for was the freedoms to feel hate, to be ignorant, to control others, and to live sedentary lives.
Excuse me if i drop the front of prose...some words are more imperative as straight text.
They are all acusing the Democrats of trying to brainwash kids into socialism. They is the GOP. Now, I am a Socialist, not a democrat. But I view politics from the stance of an Independent. And These conservatives are here, on the news, in the media, up to the same old same old routine of blabbing and bursting out bullshit opinions that are extremely closed minded and bullheaded, much like the democrats when Bush was in office. What urks me now, is the kids, again, are all getting mixed into this. The Dems are being accused of putting all these secret messages in cartoons and teaching the kids in school about socialist views...Did anyone ever stop to realize two things...
1)
"Secret" Messages - Movies and cartoons have contained "hidden messages" (known as a "THEME" in literature terms...as an educated folk would know) since the dawn of film. America's Bill of Rights list the right of freedom of speech and artistic expression. The fact is, yes there was a political theme to The Wizard of Oz dealing with migrant workers in the dust bowl trying to make it to California, and YES there was a communist city filled with little blue people in the ever popular cartoon The Smurfs; but is looking at this as a form of brainwashing really logical, is it even practical? Even children's cartoons can carry heavy subplots and underlying tones and themes, this only makes me think more of the minds of people who were able to create these films and shows. to quote a friend of mine "People don't make movies or write books or songs to make you think the way that they do; they make them all, just to
make you think." So is it practical to make such accusations? or is it just another FEAR TACTIC to make you defend your government and deny any material deemed as subversive? I as a musician take great offense to the folks out there calling "WITCH!"...
2)
Re-Education on Socialism - Since the 1950's American's generally have a misconstrued view of communism and socialism. Even in the early 19th century during the Bolshevik Revolution and amongst Lenin and Trotsky taking control of a new Russian Union, communism wasn't quite revered as such a terrible concept. Facism on the other hand, was viewed as terrorism, and even the most conservative Americans still had an understanding of the seperation of the three. Hitler claimed to be moving as a socialist government, however he (obviously) didn't follow the same path as Carl Marx had philosophized. It wasn't until Senator McCarthy's avid witch hunt took place in the 1950's, then spawning the Cold War, that we as Americans started to fear an unfathomable imagery quite cartoonesque of our opponents.
To understand this common misconception, we must understand the American economy and how the Industrial Revolution perpetuated a class structure, and market based society into heavier effect.
Capitalism, breifly, is more than just Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand": a notion that describes humans as having the will and drive to work and to be productive and succesful. This economic system relies on divided labor. In short, we can conclude that capitalism was nothing more than the same old story of rich getting richer and poor folks staying poor. Early 20th century capitalists made their money off of the work of other people, which is a system still in place today in our job market.
Socialism, on the other hand, is simply a word used to protray a theory of a utopian environment in which the laborers collectively own the companies they work for. Think of it as grassroots democracy; instead of having representatives to choose how much you will make based upon an analysys of status quo, the status quo would be choosing for themselves how much to make, what benefits they will recieve, and so fourth. Marx idea of "Communism" is vastly idealistic and utopian in the way of a dream state. Socialism being the realistic existance of Marx and Ingels idealogy. In a communist state, citezens would have Smith's Invisible Hand telling them to work and be prosperous for the good of the nation. Which is idealistic due to the apathy of most human beings in this day and age.
In essence, socialism is equality and freedom. no rich and no poor. Conservatives only tell you that this means the government would control everything and everyone because they fear that their money and companies will be in jeopardy, which is true. The folks in power are the RICH, haven't you noticed? So to protect their bank accounts they tell you socialism will take away our freedoms, socialism in Cuba is horrific taking many political prisoners, socialism is anti God and anti America. Remember those liberties i spoke of in the first paragraph? Freedom to hate, freedom to be closed minded? now those are exagerations, but the only freedoms these conservatives (and most democrats to), these CAPTILALISTS are protecting is their right to make money, to take your job and give it to someone across the ocean for less than a dollar a day who requires NO benefits. They are protecting their ownfreedom to take money from the work of others. When they tell you it's in your protection, it is a blatant lie.
The so called "communist" nations that our government uses as fear tactics against the Socialist Movement, like Cuba, aren't really Marxist Commies at all. No, they are dictatorships with the promise of something they do not intend on delivering. Of course France and Canada, these are prosperous people choosing their own lives. In capitalism, we don't make our own choices freely, we just choose between regimented options set by the companie's owners.
Does socialism sound so bad in that aspect? even though i am a Socialist, I still fear the day the U.S. decides to openly embrace socialism, because i don't trust the government. Unlike France, the US government has a history of control and terror (you can research this on your own because this rant is long enough now...). When we do become socialists, will the GOVERNMENT own the companies, or will the workers? now, that is a thing to fear..... hoped i helped you thin kabout more than you usually do, and maybe opened an eye or two to the lies we were told. Read the Manifesto, it's not as bad of an idea as your parents thought.
