The economy is circling the drain, our children can’t pay attention for more then 20 seconds, we’re all getting obese, the seas are rising, AIDs is spreading, there be dragons…..yada yada yada… eh… you get the picture….. its all doom and gloom across the world, except of course where no one gives a (rhymes with sit).
To top of our list of ills there’s a new evil in sight… according to the pundits Obama is leading America in to that great evil ‘socialism’…. Of course some of the bigwigs are going further and saying he’s the forerunner for the antichrist, while others are convinced that he’s ushering in a new Communist America.
Obama a socialist… them republicans are always good for a laugh….
..but I stopped laughing when it occurred to me that a good portion of those commenting in mainstream media and blowing their own trumpets on blogs not unlike this one actually have no idea what the difference between socialism and communism is. I’m sorry guys, if you don’t know you shouldn’t be a political commentator….. or a politician if it comes to that.

Of course you have to excuse many of the republicans making these claims, they still remember the McCarthy years and the whole ‘evil communism’ spiel that went with it. At their age they get confused…. computers are the work of Satan, and Betty Davis is no longer the #1 sex symbol in the hearts of Americans and there are things they don’t understand on TV. Naturally they think that Metropolis is the cutting edge in cinema (not that they’d watch something so controversial) and that the godless commies are a relevant threat in today’s world of economic crunch.
We all know the evil socialist countries that lurk in the world today, wringing their hands in a bad Fu-Manchu imitation as they plot the downfall of capitalism by encouraging America to splurge on sub-prime mortgages and borrow heavily from China…..oh….. never mind. Anyway I thought for the edification of my two readers I should highlight some of those evil nations with heavy socialist ideals like welfare and healthcare saturating their constitutions…
- Canada (maple syrup is another name for soylent green don’t cha know)
- United Kingdom (drinking tea is just a small step away from drinking the blood of babies)
- Australia (beach volleyball, two-piece swimmers, and the crocodile hunter* are the work of Lucifer)
- Portugal (you can tell just by looking at them that they’re evil)
Okay, so I’m taking the piss, but the target is just so ripe..
So ask yourself… what would Jesus do.
Assuming you believe.. or pretend that you do when the fundamentalist come knocking.

Help the sick? Sure
Look after those less fortunate then you? Yep
Sounds like socialism to me.
Of course if you like the Big Brother (Orwell not reality TV) way America has been going… 1 out of every 100 adults in Jail, unauthorised phone taps, arrest and detainment without charges, and state sanctioned torture, then you should have asked yourself what would Uncle Joe do…

Actually… think about it…. Seriously think about it. A large number of the rising powers are a form of flexible communism. Those that didn’t adapt to the times have fallen by the wayside but China, Cuba and quite a few others still exist and seem to be on the rise. Maybe the simple truth is that any system that can’t adapt perishes.. even the mindless enthusiasm of a capitalist nation that can’t see the problem with the premise that an economy will be fine as long as it continues to grow.
Decadence and Pathos have been the downfall of many a society throughout history, abandon international diplomacy, social reform, infrastructure, intellectual expansion and physical activity and all you have left is a core of pointless politics, parasitic legal practices, and stupid fat bigoted xenophobic bastards.

Ohhh harsh, even for me…. time for my pharmaceutical fix to make the world a nice rosy place again…