Saw photo of Obama and a Bogus Krushchev Quote Today [View all]
"We cannot expect Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism."
It was posted on Facebook by a right-wing friend from high school. I pointed out that anyone who thinks Obama is a communist or a socialist is ill informed and not paying attention, including that he has a number of Wall Street people in positions in his administration. A number of replies were made by a few people including including from the poster that he is informed and paying attention, that Obama is surrounded by communists, socialists, and Maoists, and that Obama is one big heaping of socialism. Other people posted "Dictator Obama", he has been destructive to America, we're losing our freedoms under him, and that a number of their friends will be voting conservative this Fall as they have seen the light. One person replied that Obama was caught on tape saying our allies and America would be thrown under the bus after the election.
I also did some homework about the quote and learned it was an urban legend, and posted the link as a comment. Soon after I noticed all of the comments to the picture were gone, but then it could also be Facebook screwing up.
The continuation of a number of Bush policies has been destructive, such as the tax cuts for the wealthy, the continued existence of Gitmo, welfare to corporations that have record profits.
How does one argue against BS like this? I can make a good argument but there are times when I am at a loss without writing a novel.
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