Phaedrus wrote:I think you need to take a longer view of Obama than the the kind of heated rhetoric that is going on these days. It's easy to make the association that
Socialism = government intervention and control
Government is intervening
Therefore we have Socialism
but that is overly simplistic. The fact is that sometimes government needs to intervene and whether that amounts to Socialism takes a more critical analysis than is being offered by the harbingers of doom on the right.
Phaedrus,
I don't profess to know the exact definition of Socialism.
I feel excessive governmental intervention and control = a bad thing.
I feel like the current state of government intervention and control is excessive.
Therefore, I am unhappy with the current government and want to see a shift towards conservatism in the next few elections.
Notice I don't say Republican, but Republicans are usually more conservative than democrats.