The other day, an Obama-supporting teacher of mine, whom I will not name, told our class gleefully that "The days of capitalism are fast ending, and you know what comes next..."
Someone in our small class snorted a skeptical, "uh, socialism."
The teacher didn't respond, but looked at them with a nod and a smile, with a kind of x-induced euphoric gleam.
Whenever conservatives bring up Obama's undeniable socialist jargon and ties to frightening figures like Saul Alinsky, they are never able to refute it, and they don't even care enough to look into it. They say we're ridiculous and out of line for making rude, insane accusations, and that we are no better than that 'damned' Mccarthy. These days, our political allegiances are so iron bound and prideful, that the possibility that our presidential candidate may just plan to "redistribute the wealth" goes unexamined. When McCain's political ad about Obama's ties to political wack-job extremist Bill Ayers was shown in a class of mine, the ad's message as a credible possibility was not even discussed. Instead, my teacher, who is close friends with Bill Ayers, kept calling him "Billy," and reminisced about how great he was.
Andrew Abela, PhD. puts it very well:
Redistribution of wealth is, plain and simple, taking from those who have
more and giving to those who have less. Or, in the words of Karl Marx: "From
each according to his ability, to each according to his need." The biggest
problem with this approach is that once those on the receiving side become a
large voting bloc, the temptation for government to keep increasing taxes on
the rest to satisfy that bloc is almost irresistible, and so taxes just keep
increasing. I lived in Canada for many years, so I know this first hand.
Vote against Senator Obama because he is not willing to do anything to save
the babies. And vote against him also because you'll be taking home less
money after tax in order to feed, clothe, house, and educate your own
babies.
When you meet the souls of the millions of dead babies in the next life, do
you think you will be able to face them and say to them that you did not use
your vote to try to help them, because you think that the day when abortion
will be illegal again in the US "may have passed us forever"?