Reply #73: America doesn't want socialism [View All]

[Hippo_Tron]

The vast majority of Americans don't want socialism, myself included. Part of what America was founded on, was a free market economy. Add in the fact that the government spent 40 years scaring the living shit out of people with anti-soviet/anti-communist and socialist propaganda and you can see why America doesn't want a socialist candidate. Nader might not be an all out socialist but I've listened to the guy talk and he's pretty damn close. Then factor in the amount of propaganda that the right uses against liberals/leftists and you have the American public seeing Nader as a socialist if not a communist. I don't have anything against socialists but I disagree with their philosophy in many ways. Personally, I am proud to say that I am a liberal for Kerry and that my views are probably farther to the left than those of most Americans. Although there are those still left of me, I don't feel like I am a "sellout" or a "centrist" because I don't support Nader or Kucinich. I've liked John Kerry since the early stages of the primaries and I truly hope that he will become president not just to beat Bush but to change this country for the better.