What were YOU @Chosen Daughter thinking of, when YOU stated on this very forum you would be okay with socialism just a few months ago?
And you're OK with it. You are still supporting Socialist Trump.
America's scarily sharp COVID-19 turn toward socialism
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/16/americas-scarily-sharp-covid-19-turn-toward-social/We’re All Socialists Now in the New Coronavirus Reality
Overnight, America became a nation of New Deal Democrats. Will that change the way we feel about the government?
At a press conference back in 1986, President Ronald Reagan famously declared “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,’†setting into motion the austere neoliberal in-free-markets-we-trust, get-a-job-you-bum zeitgeist that held sway for the next 34 years. That is until the COVID-19 pandemic finally breached the walls of fortress America and quickly metastasized into a full-blown national epidemic that, worst case scenario, could kill 2.2. million Americans and inflict untold and unprecedented financial pain and suffering on hundreds of millions more.
Overnight we became one nation under quarantine, cowering in our sweatpants while staring into the abyss, praying that disease can’t pick the locks of our pitiful wash-your-hands-and-hide safeguards, instantly crash the stock market and send the American economy into a death spiral that could make The Great Depression look like an ice cream social. (Consider this: In 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, unemployment peaked at 24 percent. But it took four years of economic collapse for the unemployment rate to reach one-in-four-Americans depths. This week a Federal Reserve Bank president predicted that we could be at 30 percent unemployment in a matter of weeks, if not sooner.)
For the first time in my 54 years on this Earth, I wake up every day with a very rational fear of impending societal collapse, that this could all go Mad Max in the blink of an eye. It really all depends on what the federal government does next. If they don’t get their shit together and sign into law the stimulus package currently on the table and instantly pump at least two trillion dollars into the economy, much of it directly into the pockets of once-working Americans (which is prudent fiscal policy given that consumer spending accounted for about 70 percent of our economy’s growth last year), we’re staring down a deep doomsday depression.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2020/03/26/coronavirus-stimulus-package-socialism/Is Trump a Socialist?
https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/is-donald-trump-a-socialist/https://mises.org/power-market/trumps-road-socialismDonald Trump is a 'sometimes socialist'
BY GLENN C. ALTSCHULER, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 09/09/19 10:00 AM EDT 377THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
Donald Trump is a 'sometimes socialist'
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“America was founded on liberty and independence, and not government coercion, domination, and control,†President Donald Trump declared in his 2019 State of the Union address. “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.†That same week, after asserting, falsely, that every candidate for the Democratic nomination for president “is embracing†socialism, the Trump re-election campaign predicted that “the American people will reject an agenda of sky-high taxes, government-run health care and coddling dictators.â€
Trump knows, of course, that the S-word is a perennial bogeyman in American politics. And so, it may be instructive to revisit the evidence that (according to his own definition) Trump himself is a sometimes socialist.
Reacting last month to a new round of tariffs imposed by China on U.S. goods, President Trump tweeted, “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME…†As trade experts debated whether the president has the authority to compel businesses to cease doing work with their employees and contract partners, Oliver Hart, a Nobel Laureate in economics, told Fox Business Network that the order was “more like something, you know, made by President Xi,†to which companies in a socialist country would have to comply.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/460421-donald-trump-is-a-sometimes-socialist
