Is it normal to be a socialist?

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I've always wondered this. but I am a socialist I take care of other people without expecting anything back for it. I really feel everyone in the world could live like equals, sharing everything on this planet.

however I've noticed that "socialist" in some country's is a word that depicts "bad people".

So.. is it normal to be a socialist? Or do I need to be an asocial bastard?

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  • FreakyKing2
    13 years ago

    Yeah socialism and communism were genius ideas, but the designers left out one factor "humans" greedy selfless pigs.

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  • SassyFrassyLassie_old
    13 years ago

    Honestly, I don't mind paying taxes so that other people can be on welfare. Most of those people on it are not able to function, for whatever reason, in typical society. I'm not so sure I would want them in the workforce anyway, but I don't want to see them starve on the side of a road either. Most of the people who live off of a welfare income are children and who wants to see kids starve. Not all people on welfare want to be on it, but people ignorantly assume that ALL people on welfare are lazy crackheads.

    I know most people don't share my point of view on this one, but oh well.

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  • happyB
    13 years ago

    Socialism is good in theory, but has two problems:
    1) people in general hate the idea of sharing what they have worked hard for with the population.
    2) people in general are lazy, so there will always be a lot of people working less hard than others and then expecting the hard workers to share what they have earned.
    If everyone worked hard to contribute, and also had a good heart and did not mind sharing, then it could work. However, these are against human nature.
    That does not mean there is any reason to stop being a good and helpful person. We need more good people on this planet.

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    • Mastersash
      13 years ago

      This is only against human nature because humans are all at the core "selfish," by the definition you just explained.. Taking money away from people exudes more control and less freedom than what our country stands up for. So that's the problem.. even in a communist nation where everyone is ranked as equals, the leader/figure-head is still the most wealthy and powerful. The idea of democracy places the power in the hands of the people, and the federal government is only supposed to guide those who are corrupt with their status if it benefits the SAFETY of it's people. We all don't have to be millionaire's, but the idea that a country could invest as much money into it's citizens bank accounts that everyone could retire as millionaire's is baffling compared to the war's spiraling debt (which has achieved us nothing other than removing Saddam Hussein for plotting against us on 9/11... wait-WHAT?). Obviously if everyone retired we wouldn't have an economy to return to, but it's the principle that if a COUNTRY has enough wealth to give away like we have to this war, than the government should use the money IT controls(as opposed to OUR taxes and minimum-wage)for an investment in it's own people. If the gov't can declare billion dollar bailouts for failing banks and natural disasters, could you imagine what it would have been like to use the bail-out money of today on tax-breaks back when we could afford it? Investing one trillion ten years ago out of the 13 trillion we owe now would have sparked the economy, if anything! People would go out and spend more instead of less, which is what forces the big-expensive guys on top to eventually go bankrupt only to be BAILED OUT in the long run! But since that investment would not directly apply to the "trickle-down-theory" by skipping the middle-man/b.s. and go right into OUR pockets, it has never happened. Not taking away others money but using the money that we did have at one point to help are citizens is what a real socialist gov't should do if one was ever to exist. Do everything for the people, the government should only exist for the people, the gov't SHOULD NOT BE GETTING RICH OFF IT'S PEOPLE! Why take away money from those who actually earned it (sorry, investment bankers are scams that rip off the world, not hard-earned back-breaking jobs) when we apparently still have enough money to pay for AIG's $85 BILLION vacation pay?? Karma man, we reap what we sow. Now let the bull-shit RAIN!

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    13 years ago

    Obama is not a socialist neither is he a dictator. If you dislike him so much, go vote for bush again, get your country into a stupid war again which leads to more and more debt. Obama is tryingto get your country out of it's mess, but the shit Bush has produced is to deep to climb out of.

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  • avalonis
    13 years ago

    No it is against human nature to be a socialist, since mankind has evolved to be greedy, selfish and obsessed with survival. Your brand of altruism is against every fiber of our beings. We are not living in paradise, and try to accept that other people DON'T have your best interests at heart and a lot would kill you for what you have.

    Based on the history and condition of mankind, your point of view is abnormal.

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    • Mastersash
      13 years ago

      keyword is "Man"kind.. men.

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  • am_i_nrml
    13 years ago

    It's too bad you label everyone that's not a socialist a asocial bastard.
    I in your definition am an asocial bastard. I work hard to provide for my family. It frustrates me to end to see people that do nothing to improve their lot in life while living off mine and others hard work. Why should capable but unmotivated people (read lazy) be rewarded for making 0 contribution to society or their community?
    Socialism doesn't work.

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  • soccer2
    13 years ago

    HappyB nailed it
    Those are the reasons people are not fond of socialism
    It looks good on paper but ends up almost bordering on communism

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  • Bartholomew
    13 years ago

    In my opinion, socialism is idealistic but not practical.

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  • spen731
    13 years ago

    Socialism would work in theory, in theory it would create a perfect society, but practically it can never work, all it would take is for someone to get greedy or lazy and it would fail, it has failed over and over again, in reality socialism can and will never work, by the way us asocial bastards have supported a system called modified capitalism that has worked for much longer than socialism

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  • 343Boy
    12 years ago

    Sounds more like a communist than a socialist to me.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    nothing is impossible. We can create good socialism. Just nobody has done it yet. Nobody did communism properly. Or messed up somehow. Or focused on genocide (Circa. Stalin) But we can change that. I'm a communist/socialist living in Canada. I love the queen but in General A communsit is what I am. Communism unites the human race. not kill the human race. Togethor let's make it better and make it work, Hard workers are good workers. Lazy workers are foolish workers. You earn what you want. And that is how you earn it through hard work, Hard work builds a good country. Notice how China and USSR were powerfull people. They are "Bad" because if anybody attacked them they would be blown to bits.

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  • Mastersash
    13 years ago

    Point is, there are the lazy who don't earn enough money but take a little in return, and then the fancy-lazy who are privileged enough to have earned a job on wall-street that rips off every person on the planet! Yea, they're "working," but they also run the world without obtaining any actual political power. That's our country's loophole: if you earn the American dream, you can own America more than Obama does: a.k.a. Halliburton. ITS ABOUT USING THE GOV'T AS A TOOL TO REGULATE THESE MONOPOLIES FROM BECOMING OLIGOPOLIES AND BANKRUPTING US ALL. Wall-street is essentially a monopoly.. or oligopoly working together illegally; the WORST kind because they cannot be regulated. It's about all of us in between who work and earn what we put out for our country while many others, both rich and poor, take advantage in every way they can. The gov't should help EVERYONE equally. If that happened, if bankers didnt rip us off and doctors didnt have to charge 200% above required prices just to pay of their education, than we wouldn't need the trickle-down theory OR have to heavily tax the rich.. More importantly: WE WOULDN'T NEED BAILOUTS! If that was done, then there would be enough "money" to go around.. but it doesn't.

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  • emilyily
    13 years ago

    Comment up above.... I do

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  • jumpingjack
    13 years ago

    If you believe in socialism then you should check out www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

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  • SassyFrassyLassie_old
    13 years ago

    Like on Star Trek. Great idea, but too bad most people are too greedy to go along with it.

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    • superaspie
      11 years ago

      And on Star Trek, humanity had evolved a bit to be more altruistic, esp on TNG.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Great moral standard, shitty economic system (just look at the USSR)

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Come next summer, we might be saluting our very socialist dictator Barack Obama.

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