I used to write that nearly the only thing between Democrat socialists and the NAZI socialists in terms of policy was that the Democrats didn’t hate Jews. Looks like the Democrats have cleaned that up for us rather nicely. Seriously though, there are very subtle and truly unimportant policy differences between these socialist governance platforms.
Health:
Fascism: public health was the ideal vehicle for strengthening international cooperation, because ‘no state wishes to become better than the others in preserving the health of its own people.
Socialism: a health care system in which the government owns and operates health care facilities and employs the health care .
communism: the government owned and ran all health care, and it was free to the people.
Democrat platform: Democrats have fought to achieve universal health care for a century. We are proud to be the party of Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act.Business:
Fascism: A minimum wage. The state, through official cartels, controlled all aspects of manufacturing,
Socialism: Socialism is a populist economic and political system based on public ownership (also known as collective or common ownership) of the means of production.
Communism: economic decisions are made by the community as a whole.
Democrat platform: We should raise and index the minimum wage, give all Americans the ability to join a union regardless of where they work, and create new ways for workers to have power in the economyUnions:
Fascism: Federalized, mandatory labor unions
Socailsim: Socialists advocate for a system in which the workers control the means of production and enjoy the fruits of their labor
Communism: The Communists argued that workers must rely on militant picket lines to win strikes; waiting for New Deal legislation to bring union recognition was hopeless.
Democrat platform: give all Americans the ability to join a union regardless of where they workTaxation:
Fascism: A strong progressive tax on capital (envisaging a “partial expropriation” of concentrated wealth);
Socialism: Progressive taxation.
Communism: a “heavy graduated income tax” is a salient feature of the Communist Manifesto
Democrat platform: Democrats will reform the tax code to be more progressive and equitable
It’s truly shocking to see that many Democrat voters in the US have taken a genocidal stance against Jewish people, supporting actual terrorist murderers over a sane normal and peaceful democracy. Israel has not started this recent war, the October 7 attack by Hamas murderers did. Israel is good at finishing them however.
So Gaza is full of people who claim to want to murder anyone not Islamic. They are trained from birth to hate America and Israel and that these two nations must be eliminated for their own best interests. The brainwashing to hate that Palestinian citizens experience is itself immoral, and should be rejected internationally. The propaganda includes false repression, fake genocide claims and a religion which demands the murder or at best complete subjugation of non-believers. In the meantime, Hamas, an organization dedicated to wiping out Israel and America is in charge of the whole population. On October 7, this terrorist designated group started a war with a completely unprovoked attack on civilians.
This is not some case of equivocation where both sides are bad guys some times. This is flat out one side is evil, the other side is good. On the evil side, the only good thing you can say about them is that not every single citizen has fallen for the brainwashing they have received. Hamas has taught a poisonous and sick culture to its members and there is no place for their form of thought on this planet. This is an accepted norm in middle eastern countries as it is part of extremist Islamic religion, and it is not something we can live with or should even consider living with. These evil teachings are not harmless and must be rejected by any healthy minded human.
Socially, a healthy society should reject the Hamas organization and any Islamic extremism on an international level and that is the point of this post. What does it say about our culture, when it cannot universally recognize and condemn obvious evil? It actually disgusts me personally that the entire international community hasn’t rallied against this evil but instead splits into factions of supporters which include those who support the mind-wiped murderers over those defending their right to exist.
Not wanting yourself or your family attacked is common sense, and is becoming one of the most rare of the types of understanding we can find. Long term civility of society requires direct and terminal consequence for those who would commit acts of mass murder. There is no middle option or society is effectively encouraging the next murderous act by those who seek personal power that is only weakly justified through Islamic religion.
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I spent 10 days in Israel in 2012. One of the things that made an impression on me was how small the region is and the close proximity of the hostile forces. Israel has been remarkable in restraint when facing such threats.
The Holocaust Museum was one stop on the tour I would not have chosen on my own. I already knew how bad the murder of Jews was in WWII so why spend time there when there were so many more interesting places? The museum is one long meandering path through a large building with the only exit at the end. It systematically showed the demonization of the Jews by the Nazis starting just after WWI. They were being blamed for all of Germany’s problems and progressively downgraded to sub-human level so that by the time WWII started they could be shot on the street with majority of the population approving. The museum contrasted the sub-human depiction with examples that they were real people and not monsters.
I came away with an understanding of why Israel takes (and must take) the threats against them seriously. They aren’t paranoid, there are still people trying to wipe them off the face of the Earth.
Yet Israel’s actions against their enemies show more regard for their enemy’s lives than the enemy has for their own. They have gone to extreme measures to warn and civilians to get out of the way even though that also tells Hamas exactly where they will be going. Hamas has physically prevented people from leaving and actually executed some who merely accepted food from aid agencies. The satire site Babylon Bee put it nicely. https://babylonbee.com/news/israel-warns-civilians-to-evacuate-rafah-in-most-incompetent-genocide-ever
I 100% support Israel against Hamas. Anyone who truly supports the Palestinian people should be calling for Hamas to surrender unconditionally. The Sea to the River will be free because Israel is going to free the people of Gaza from Hamas. It will take a generation to reverse the indoctrination but I am hopeful it can be done. Japan was fanatical in WWII but by the 1960’s were peaceful and are very good allies today.
This post may draw replies complaining about this or that that Israel has done wrong. They aren’t perfect. I don’t agree with every settlement they have built in the West Bank. However those are very minor nits that can be worked out if the other side was at all open to peaceful living.
“This post may draw replies complaining about this or that that Israel has done wrong.”
Yup !!!
Israel has some dirty hands in this, but big picture, I completely support them.
I’m sitting here wondering how could so much of the world have become so publicly antisemitic and they aren’t unilaterally called out for it. Kind of a rhetorical thought because I see the same psychosis with The China Wuhan virus and Ukraine.
Israel lost control over their creation called HAMAS. HAMAS went rogue in 2006 when they won the Election violently in Gaza.
Israel subsequently declared Gaza a “hostile territory” and tightened its extensive and ongoing closure, implemented in part by Egypt, which shares the southwest border. Israel and, to a lesser extent, Egypt, control the land, sea, and air access to the Palestinian enclave.