Fox News & Donald Trump Lie When They Say Democrats are Socialists — Here’s why — by Eddie Krassenstein
Not a Single Democrat running for President is a “Socialist!” I’m sick and tired of hearing the opposite. It’s as if 50% of America has somehow completely forgotten 7th grade World History. Socialism is a government in which capitalism does not exist. In a Socialist government, the government runs all businesses and all means of production within that country. That’s what socialism is!
- Socialism is NOT single-payer health care.
- Socialism is NOT free college tuition.
- Socialism is NOT the distribution of wealth to those in need.
- Socialism is NOT a higher progressive tax rate for the wealthy.
If Socialism was all of these things, like Republicans try and claim over and over again, then I have news for you: America would already be a socialist country and we would have been for over a century.
- America already has single-payer health care. It’s called Medicare, and your senior citizen parents or grandparents are the beneficiaries. It started over 50 year ago. In fact the first president to suggest a national health insurance plan was Teddy Roosevelt 107 years ago, and he was, you guessed it, A REPUBLICAN!
- America already has…