A letter I sent a diehard conservative I have been conversing with:
Dear Sir;
I am no advocate of Socilaism, but protection from socialist revolt. What I am implying is that for capitalism to thrive in this country we need to do something about the debt,dearth of good jobs and the income gap that is plauging this country. Today's GOP is not addressing this issue.
The WWII generation understood the concept of Laborism, not be confused with Socialism. Laborism simply means that we must all be sure to create a country where it is possible for every American to have a good job. This starts with business owners willfully giving good jobs with good benefits and paying the manufacturing taxes to keep jobs in this country. Again, today's GOP is not addressing this issue.
Today's American conservatives tend to be Baby Boomers who just want to bash liberal groups for personal reasons. They are as idealistic and unrealistic as the flower children of the 1960s.
The United States threatens to lose its economic superpower status if long-term investing (Including paying higher business taxes and good benefits for workers) continues to be replaced with cheap labor, tax loopholes, and placing short-term profit over long-term stability.
Thats why our economy stinks after 20 years of "conservative" talk radio.
And you will never hear that among most conservative talkers like Limbaugh or Coulter.They are too busying spreading unconservative and unAmerican hate.
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Thats the central point I was making. America is losing its economic greatness bit by bit because the Baby Boomers with their short-term gratification, and scare tactics against anyone who dares cross their path, the Bush Administration included.
This country needs to get back to thinking about long-term stability, jobs, and grow up and quit worrying about who's sleeping with who. Disagree. Why would anyone want to protect themselves from socialism? The idea that the for profit system ever was, is or will be fair to the working class or anyone else other than the elite is delusional at best and downright reactionary at worst. Apparently 20 years of "conservative" talk radio did their job even on those who consider themselves progressive.
"In the United States, far-Right Republicans and Democratic liberals alike have sold many people on the notion that the market should be the main force to drive the economy and define social relationships. They maintain that government should stay off people's backs and out of our wallets. They promote rugged individualism and consumerism couched in terms like "personal responsibility," "freedom" and "independence." "Greed is good!" was the mantra of Michael Douglas' character, Gordon Gecko, in the 1980s movie "Wall Street," and those became the words to live by in the '80s and '90s. The philosophy and value of greed was taken to heart by many a corporate CEO, and, over the past three decades, this twisted logic -- underlined by the values of individualism and the culture of consumerism -- has turned back the clock on human development with devastating consequences"
http://www.alternet.org/story/92426/the_...
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul200...
The ideal of equality鈥攐penly repudiated by the Democrats鈥攊s today inseparable from the fight of working people to defend their living standards and basic rights against the attacks being carried out by the corporations and the government. This struggle can be advanced only through an irreparable break from the Democratic Party and the building of a new independent political movement of the working class fighting for the socialist reorganization of society.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul200...
Contemporary liberal politicians and editorialists are for justice and equality for everyone and resolutely opposed to the ultra-right鈥攁s long as it doesn't require them to work up a sweat. In income, lifestyle and outlook they are much closer to Bush, Trent Lott and Tom Delay than they are to the working class and middle class voters of Florida who were deprived of their rights and who fear for their jobs, their pensions, their civil rights and their health.
In the final analysis, the liberal wing of the ruling elite fears the same social process as Geyer and company: the radicalization of wide layers of the population and their advancement of their own independent interests, above all, social equality. It fears this more than anything, including police-state dictatorship.
In The History of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky cited the comment of a Russian philosopher, who spoke more forthrightly than our present-day liberals鈥攁t least out loud: 鈥淲hatever we [liberals] stand for, we must not dream of uniting with the people鈥攚e must fear them more than all the persecutions of the government, and we must give thanks to the government which alone protects us with its prisons and bayonets from the ferocity of the people.鈥?Voila!
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jan200...
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Well said. Laborism, I like that term. During the democratic run I find you get all these liberal pundits and radio announcers like Kieth Olberman and Howard Stern get all the attention, but then when republicans lead you get horrible people like anne coulter, and a little more realist talk radio people like Glenn Beck.The reason the GOP is not addressing this issue is the same as the one thing both beck and olberman have stated, they are giving all the jobs overseas. Capitolist Laborism? What about a welfare system that gives someone after say 6 months of being on welfare (who is not sick) a job, even as a dish pig or cleaning around a building, and if they don't want that job, then no welfare or benefits? Then millions of unemployed people would have jobs. The ideal is not libertarianism or conservative thoughts alone, but both coming together to create something better then either could have thought of alone. I thought that is one of democracies great advantages? Its a shame that advantage is hardly used.
As people age, they tend to become more conservative because they have more "stuff". However, my impression of the Boomers and highly educated younger people is that they are realizing the gap between the rich and poor is rapidly getting wider. With Corporate flight to countries with cheap labor, loss of jobs, home foreclosures and sky-high prices of everything from food to medicine to gas, they are witnessing the attempt by the greedy to destroy middle-class America. If we don't elect a man like Obama, who will try to repair our country, we will be experiencing more of the destruction that Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rumsfeldt started. McCain is much more of a Bush-man than people think! |
