Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Socialism defined!
One of my guilty pleasures is reading the Letters to the Editor in the Waco Tribune-Herald. Many are thoughtful and clear-- my own favorites are the ones that thanks some community member for a kindness of some kind (one of the great traits of Texans is a general willingness to help a stranger in need).
Then there are the unhinged missives, which come from both sides but most often sound like a Fox News commentator on a bender. For example, here is one from earlier this week:
Socialism defined
With all the talk of the new Democratic Socialist Party, I decided to go to the dictionary for a definition of socialism. Socialism was defined as a society or group living with no personal property. So from that definition I can only assume that George Soros, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, John McCain and all the other millionaire Democrats and all millionaire politicians will rush down to donate all their millions and billions to society along with their mansions in gated communities to join the rest of the people of America.
And I am sure that from their stellar initiative that Madonna, Cher, Robert De Niro, Whoopi, Rob Reiner and others will be dumping their wealth in order to join the Socialist Society. If you believe this, keep listening to the Soros left. In reality their idea of socialism is to keep theirs and tax the middle class into submission by the rich progressive globalists who want to rob the world! If they care so much then, let them make the first move!
-- John McCain is a Democrat?
-- Robert DeNiro et al. are socialists?
-- Socialists want to tax the middle class to finance a tax cut for the rich?
At any rate, this is probably a good insight into how many people in our country see things right now. I'm not quite sure what can be done about that.
