MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: Obama & Left-Wing Bloggers Are Failing to Sell ‘Social State’
"They make it sound like it's them against the cowboys."
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2 Comments:
(Townhall.com) - It's about time (although indirectly) the Left became intellectually honest about their core convictions. But as Medved repeats daily, Americans don't know what socialism means. There is no knee-jerk negative reaction to this word because our education providers -- and soon-to-be healthcare providers fail to properly educate our children (although I give them credit for teaching them about slavery, Indian "genocide," global warming, and how to properly place a condom on a banana). America understands "big government" though, and they do not like the sound of it or the damage it does to their families and friends.
(Hot Air) - Perhaps Matthews doesn’t recall this, but America existed before Medicare, and it wasn’t Calcutta West. America before Social Security wasn’t colonial India, either. Instead of relying on government entitlements, people planned for their retirements and paid for their own medical care. Those days were far from perfect, but they didn’t threaten to bankrupt the nation through unsupportable entitlement spending based on Ponzi-scheme financials, either.
If Matthews and his Democrats intend on selling the “social state” to skeptical Americans, they’ll have to do better than those examples. Unfortunately, those are the best arguments that socialists have to offer.
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