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Furytrader, I'm not surprised by your reply, a vague and factless personal attack that avoids the subject and argument altogether. Calling me a leftist tells me a lot about how you think. Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there who learned what they know about political science from Rambo and Chuck Norris movies in the 80's. The belief that on the far left you have commies and on the far right you have libertarians, that right is good and left is evil, is absurd, false, and totally untrue. On the far right you have nazis and fascists, not libertarians. On the far left, yes, there are the dirty commies. In fact they are one in the same, they are collectivists. Collectivism is not about foodstamps or health insurance or helping the needy out, it's not remotely connected. It's an evil defined by a vertical power structure, totalitarian, authoritarian, with an all powerful monarch or ruler atop the pyramid. It's a system of Orwellian group think where the ruling class is always right, you are either with us or against us. If you don't want your rights privatized and sold off to the communists in China you better WTFU.
I'm a centrist, not a leftist. I do have some liberal views of how the world should be, such as the legalization of pot via and an end to the brutal and costly war on drugs, freedom of choice in all aspects of life, and concern for the environment that it should be protected from profit blind corporations. So yes, I do have some liberal concerns. I have many more conservative ones as well, free markets, low taxes, etc. It's only in the center however where things get done and progress is made. If people don't come together soon and take back the Congress, the whole world, not just America, is in for a nightmare.
Major Oil states have been very outspoken against the Keystone pipeline. Where Obama is against Keystone, Mitt will get it rolling on day 1 of his Presidency. Chavez is also facing an election so associating himself positively with a political figure that people everywhere seem to like must be a good campaign strategy.
I would just say that the term socialist does seem to be misused a lot around here as it is not a left of center phenomenon, it occurs on both side of the spectrum equally. Left wing socialists are communists, right wing socialists are fascists. It would seem that the world's ills at the moment are a result of a new world order fascists phenomenon. Whoever inherits the massive US bureaucracy is by definition going to be a socialist, be they left or right wing.
Would the Monsanto Man, given the ultimate power position, really scale back the size of government?
Whiplash-Mitt Romney Lavishes Praise On Israel's Socialist, Government Controlled Healthcare System