Obama & So-called Socialism is going to win the day fairly handily in November 2012
But while the Obama campaign won't frame it in these terms, modern capitalism itself will be on trial in this campaign. Many Republicans with less hubristic and shortsighted than Hannity understand that, and want to pretend that vulture capitalism isn't real capitalism (though it very much is, especially in a financialized, asset-based economy.) But it's too late for that now. Romney is going to be their standard-bearer, exposing the ugliness of Republican economics for what it really is.
And while progressives know that President Obama is light years away from being a socialist, the right-wing media empire will attempt to portray him as such, framing the 2012 election as a choice between nasty European Socialism and good old-fashioned American Free Market Capitalism. Obama vs. Romney is nothing of the sort, of course, but the truth of the matter is irrelevant to the rhetoric of the debate set by the right-wing and its enablers in the traditional media.
For a great many voters who don't know better, President Obama will represent "Socialism", while Mitt Romney will represent "Capitalism." So-called Socialism is going to win the day fairly handily in November 2012, and the wingers will have none but themselves to blame for it. Gingrich and Perry can whine belatedly all they want, but they made their bed and now they get to lie in it.
more:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/redefining-capitalism-by-davidoatkins.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
