Communism Rears it's Ugly Head in Michigan!

[Left_Is_Right]

Republican controlled Michigan's State Government has resorted to Cold War, Soviet Union tactics. They are seizing cities and townships and removing the local elected officials. This is tantamount to old Soviet oppression and typical activities against people with whom they are in disagreement. Stop it now by ANY MEANS POSSIBLE!




Lefty,

[malaise]

1. That's not communism

It's fascism - takeover by corporate interests

[Left_Is_Right]

2. perhaps....but...

It's the kind of thing you would have expected to hear in the old soviet union....

[RedCloud]

8. Nowadays reactionaries are branded as radicals.

[Ezlivin]

9. By the way

"It's" can only mean "it is."

Carry on.

[Kurovski]

13. It's a combo platter.

But it's more like Russian Imperialism than Communism, as you well know Comrade Malaise. :hi:

[OHdem10]

3. Wrong ISM. This Fascism. We are as ignorant as the Tea Party

When Business rules, Privatization etc. Fascism.

Communism the state would be taking power from Business.
In Michigan they are even taking from the poor to give
money to Business.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. You do realize that the basic law in question was passed over 20 years ago?

The Local Government Fiscal Responsibility Act was PA 72 0f 1990

[Armstead]

11. But it is now being put on steroids

[ProgressiveProfessor]

15. How So?

[upi402]

5. Authoritarianism again again

Meet the new party bosses... same as the old aparatchik.

[amborin]

6. hey, don't malign communism, esp in a state where communist union organizers helped form the UAW

and learn some grammar, too!

you wrote "it's" when you should have written "its"

the former means "it is" while the latter is the possessive you are searching for

[Bandit]

7. Not communism, just Authoritarianism

They are doing exactly what King George was doing that infuriated our fore fathers enough to go to war over.. We should follow suit imo. This is an issue that is of utmost importance. Important enough to actually go to war over....I am in my mid sixties but I would go into battle for this cause...It is the most Anti-American thing Republicans have done, in plain sight that is...I love this country and the principles it was founded upon and Republicans apparently do not and are doing everything they can to destroy it...I will fight in any and every way I can..

[Left_Is_Right]

10. I Stand Corrected...Fascism Raises Its Ugly Head in Michigan!

Corrected and reposted for the word police...lol





Lefty,

[socialist_n_TN]

16. Change the hammer and sickle to a swastika

and you've got it!

[Ikonoklast]

17. "Facist"? Try again.

[Keith Bee]

12. The last word kinda screws the argument

Privatization ain't Bolshevism.

[bvar22]

14. I agree that this is NOT Communism, BUT....

..."Communism" does have better Marketing Value in the Land of Low Information voters,
and the great majority of these voters would agree that "Communism" = Big Government Takeover.


So, it all comes down to this:
Are you willing to tell an untruth to advance your cause?

A few years ago, I would have answered "HELL NO!",
but after seeing the forces we are in Life or Death combat with since the 80s, including those inside the "Democratic" Party,
I'm more flexible.

I'm close to the point of "By Any Means Possible".

I also take some delight in seeing the tactic that has been used for so long to discredit The Left used against The Monsters that have successfully co-opted our government.


On Edit: This is interesting.
Robert Scheer agrees.

"It is time to admit that we are, in practice if not surface appearance, close to the Chinese communist model of state-sponsored capitalism that sacrifices the interests of ordinary workers, be they in the public or private sector, for the exorbitant profits of the superrich. It is the corporations that need big government to protect their interests, and one would hope they would be willing to pay for the services that their government so faithfully renders to make them obscenely wealthy as it studiously ignores the well-being of the rest of us."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_new_corporate_world_order_20110419