Why do many Democrats support Communism?

[Hutch]

There is a belief among some authoritarian/leftists that individuals must be protected from Big Business by Big Government. For the life of me, I can't recall any group of MicroSoft employees kicking in doors and making Linux users "Cease and Desist" at gunpoint. Given the choice, I'll take my chances with having Big Business, any day.

 

[mountainclmbr]

HBK...I have to agree with you that Democrats seem to lie more. After all, they are the party of ambulance chasers and defense attorneys. They don't want to punish criminals, but want to go after the money of people who work for a living.

I got myself an education and I work hard. I have only had one new car in my life and that was in 1983...20 years ago. I have seen plenty of people in the grocery store that pay with food stamps and then load their groceries into brand new cars. What is wrong with this picture?

 

[BigG]

Mountainclmbr:

What's wrong with this picture?

You are viewing the backbone of the dumocrat party who feel no shame to sell their (vote) soul for a bowl of pottage (grits). Wasn't there a story in the Bible sompin along those lines?

 

[mercedesrules]

Democracy is communism "lite" and will lead to the real thing.

 

[HBK]

That picture shows why we should abandon our welfare system. When people know they aren't going to get benefits for free, they are more likely to work for it. I can't stand the fact that I busted my ??? to earn an education and to make money and see free loaders getting food stamps and buying new cars. SO much of my tax money goes to the government that it does feel like I'm working for da man. It's worse elsewhere, though.

 

[MeekandMild]

What gburner said!

Right here I am declaring that I am 50% a slave. Toiling half time for da man.

Mounty, you'd be shocked, totally shocked if you crunched the numbers for Antebellum cotton farming slavery in the deep south. IIRC the calculation involves the number of man-days for planting, cultivating and harvesting cotton, plus the shared labor for clearing fields, repairing roads, et cetera. Fieldhands worked about 35%-40% of their workdays for their owners and 60%-65% for themselves.

If we go a little further in Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine to the time of Medieval Lairds and Serfs we find the Serf had to give between 10% and 15% of his work time for shared tasks and 15%-25% of his harvest. :banghead:

So you'd be better off picking cotton or shoveling pig **** and letting the Master or Laird impregnate your daughters.

 

[whoisjohngalt]

As the Democratic and Republican parties continue to morph and each move toward the direction of collectivism, albeit at differing speeds and each with their own "rationale" for the moves, the basic premise of Communism/Socialism remains the same: that Man must exist for the sake of the State.

In large measure, it is the success of the "collectivist" class warfare message; that individual personal success is only achieved at the expense of others and that every successful person has achieved their success by hurting another.
The Statists/Communists/Collectivists use obedience, conformity, submission and intellectual laziness to achieve their ultimate goal of the destruction of our Independence. If they succeed, it will be by default.

 

[SIGarmed]

She attributes statements to The New York Times editorial page which actually were statements made by various news figures which ran in news articles in The Times.

You mean the Times doesn't have editors who control what goes in the paper? You said these statements ran in "news" articles. Editorials aren't news.

Did you make an error? If you didn't she did nothing wrong.