Socialism beats Capitalism in poll of Democrats...

Obama's transformation of America....

Via Daily Caller:

A clear majority of Democrats believe socialism has a “positive impact on society,” according to a poll by the American Action Network (AAN).
The political and economic system that wreaks havoc across the world from Venezuela to North Korea is enjoying widespread support in the modern Democratic Party.
A telephone poll of 1,000 likely Democratic primary voters found that when capitalism and socialism were polled head to head, socialism won by 15 percentage points, with just 25 percent of respondents saying they favored capitalism.
In terms of definition, the poll made clear that socialism meant a greater role for government in the economy and substantial wealth redistribution, but the idea itself was not clearly defined by its traditional meaning as government ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange.
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Bernie Sanders tweets about the joy of "Democratic Socialism"

Democrats used to deny they were Socialists. Now, they are proud of it. 

To me, Democratic Socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) October 22, 2015

Change: More Democrats now favor Socialism than Capitalism

Well, Obama said he would transform America. What he actually transformed was the Democratic Party. 

49% of Democrats feel favorable to socialism; just 37% feel favorable to capitalism. https://t.co/kQ0ZldKhlF pic.twitter.com/qkoIt9rL4y

— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) October 20, 2015

Hillary Interview Question: Anything Wrong with Socialism Hillary? 'Not Going to Comment.'

Not going to comment? Well, that tells me a lot.

Poll: Almost Half of Democrats view socialism favorably...

Obama has been trans-formative...

Via USA Today/YouGov:

Tweet of the Day: This is what a supermarket in socialist Venezuela looks like

Striking images of #EmptyShelvesInVenezuela the 4th biggest oil producer in the world. #AnaquelesVaciosEnVenezuela https://t.co/axpDSitCZt”
— elena panizza (@brainbazaar) January 6, 2015

Socialism fail: Heavily subsidized Venezuelan food often ends up in Columbia...

What happens when you heavily subsidize food and make it almost free? People buy it and sell it in a nearby country for a profit. So, Socialism is actually promoting Capitalism? 

Attention Venezuelan shoppers: Please proceed to the supermarket checkout for fingerprinting.
That could be a reality if a plan announced earlier this week by the country's president, Nicolas Maduro, goes into effect.
The purpose? Combating shortages caused by rampant smuggling of subsidized food in Venezuela across the border into neighboring Colombia. Maduro says the system would stop people from buying too much of a single item.
According to the BBC, up to 40 percent of subsidized goods from Venezuela are smuggled into Colombia.
"The amount of staples smuggled to Colombia would be enough to load the shelves of our supermarkets," Gen. Efrain Velasco Lugo, a military spokesman, told El Universal newspaper.

Confirmed: Socialism makes people more likely to be cheaters...

This explained a lot about Obama's character. 

Via CNS News:

Individuals exposed to socialism were twice as likely to cheat as those who had not been in a socialist system, says a new study from a collaboration between Duke University and the University of Munich. “The longer individuals were exposed to socialism, the more likely they were to cheat on our task.”
Researchers compared 259 participants’ willingness to lie and cheat by playing a simple game that could earn them $8. Every game player was asked to throw a pair of dice 40 times and record every roll of the dice on paper. Those with the highest tallies would have the highest payoff. Players had to commit to write down the number on either the top or the bottom of the dice. Since they didn’t have to say which side they had chosen, it was easy to cheat by rolling the dice and then pretending the higher number was the side they had chosen. [...]
“We interpret our findings as evidence that the political regime of socialism has a lasting impact on citizens’ basic morality,” say the study’s authors Ariely, Garcia-Rada, Hornuf and Mann.
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Update: The Socialist Paradise Of Venezuela Has Major Issues...

Liberals fail to recognize Socialism is a bad plan. They just think it isn't being implemented well. The latest country to poorly implement Socialism is Venezuela.

Via Daily Beast:

“I want to get out of here. I want to leave this country as soon as possible and never come back.”
The text from my friend Luis surprised me. A lawyer by training, he got his masters in urban planning from an elite Manhattan university, and had returned to Venezuela full of hope. He was hired by a local NGO working on poverty abatement issues. But now, he’s fed up.
“Nothing works. There are lines to buy everything. Prices have gone through the roof. You can’t go out at night for fear of getting shot. If you want to get married, finding a place to live is impossible. The country has become unlivable.”
Luis’s story is a depressingly common one on the streets of Venezuela’s major urban centers. The nation’s young people are tired of enduring one of the world’s highest inflation rates, highest murder rates, scarcity of basic staples like toilet paper, and the near certainty that things are going to get worse before they get better. A few days ago, the Associated Press reported on Venezuelans camping on the sidewalk to get information about emigrating to Ireland.
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Socialism Fail: Lights go out in Venezuela again...

This the second major power outage in 4 months. You would think a country with as much oil as Venezuela could keep the electricity on. That isn't true. The government is so incompetent, you can't even buy toilet paper in Venezuela any more. This is what happens when your leader is a former community organizer bus driver. Of course, socialists never accept responsibility for their failures. The blame a Tea Party right-wing plan.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's second massive power outage of the year plunged much of the nation into darkness on Monday night, prompting renewed talk of sabotage from President Nicolas Maduro's government and cries of incompetence from its foes.
Power went off in Caracas and other cities around the country soon after 8 p.m. local time (0030 GMT), to the intense annoyance of residents and commuters.
"I feel so frustrated, angry and impotent," said sales adviser Aneudys Acosta, 29, trudging through the rain along a street in the capital after having to leave the disrupted underground transport system.
"I live far away and here I am stuck under the rain. Something's going wrong that they're not sorting out. The government needs a Plan B. This is just not normal."
Monday's outage appeared similar to a massive September 5 blackout that was one of the worst in the South American OPEC member's history.

Maduro, a 50-year-old former bus driver[...]

"I have no doubt that today's electricity sabotage is part of the right-wing's plan," Cabello said on Twitter.

NCAAP handbook promotes “Christian Socialism.”

I remember when being a socialist was considered un-American and a bad thing ...

Via Tony Lee:

The NAACP of North Carolina has created a handbook for clergy to enable them to use Bible verses to promote what has been called “Christian Socialism.”
The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is a “lead organizer of the Moral Monday rallies,” and Rev. William Barber, who is reportedly an “organizer and frequent keynote speaker,” has often used the handbook to denounce Republicans in North Carolina’s legislature for “trying to move the state backwards” by supporting issues like Voter ID laws, which North Carolina’s governor recently signed into law.
Their rallying slogan is, “Forward together, not one step back” and the tax-exempt organization advocates a brand of “Christian Socialism.” The handbook suggests using a Bible verse that offers “an alternative paradigm for interpersonal and communal engagement that can serve as a critical rejoinder to the policies of our state government.”
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Amusing: Former Communist country accepts refugee from country trying out Socialism...

Change...

(Reuters) - French film star Gerard Depardieu arrived in Russia on Saturday to meet President Vladimir Putin, who granted him citizenship after a public spat in France over his efforts to avoid a potential 75 percent income tax.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the two would meet in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where Putin was spending part of the 10-day New Year and Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday.

He said it was possible Putin would hand Depardieu his Russian passport during the meeting.
"It is a private meeting, we will not be releasing any other details," Peskov said by phone.

Russian media quoted him as saying the meeting would take place on Saturday. Depardieu's spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.

On Thursday, the Kremlin announced that Putin had signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to Depardieu, who objected to Socialist president Francois Hollande's plan to impose a 75 percent tax rate on millionaires.

European Socialism Fail: 25% of British mothers forced to choose food over heat...

This is the model Obama wants to use for America?

Via PressTV:

Soaring energy bills in Britain have forced one in four mothers to turn off the heating in order to afford food for their children, a new survey has found.

A recent study of 1000 households by the Energy Bill Revolution campaign revealed that a shocking 23 percent of British families already have to choose between buying food and using heating.

According to the study, more than half of British families turn the heating off when their children are out, while 45 percent wrap up in blankets or duvets to keep warm during the day.

Gallop: 53% of democrats have a favorable view of Socialism...

Democrats also have a very high opinion of the federal government...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Exemplifying a major partisan divide in modern politics, Democrats react significantly more positively to the term "federal government" than they do to the term "capitalism," while the opposite is true for Republicans. But both Democrats and Republicans are highly positive about the terms "small business," "free enterprise," and "entrepreneurs."

Gallop

DNC Delegates Cool With Socialism (Video)

Communism would have been OK with many of them too.

Shock Video: DNC Delegates willing to ban corporate profits

Socialism anyone?

Robert Reich claims Socialism isn't the answer. Suggests turning Capitalism into something that sounds a lot like Communism.

Robert Reich has comrade Obama's complete attention.

Via HuffPo:

Francois Hollande's victory doesn't and shouldn't mean a movement toward socialism in Europe or elsewhere. Socialism isn't the answer to the basic problem haunting all rich nations.

The answer is to reform capitalism. The world's productivity revolution is outpacing the political will of rich societies to fairly distribute its benefits. The result is widening inequality coupled with slow growth and stubbornly high unemployment.

In the United States, almost all the gains from productivity growth have been going to the top 1 percent, and the percent of the working-age population with jobs is now lower than it's been in more than thirty years (before the vast majority of women moved into paid work).[...]

The problem is not that the productivity revolution has caused unemployment or under-employment. The problem is its fruits haven't been widely shared. Less work isn't a bad thing. Most people prefer leisure. A productivity revolution such as we are experiencing should enable people to spend less time at work and have more time to do whatever they'd rather do.

The problem comes in the distribution of the benefits of the productivity revolution. A large portion of the population no longer earns the money it needs to live nearly as well as the productivity revolution would otherwise allow. It can't afford the "leisure" its now experiencing involuntarily. Read more here...

Video: Former Soviet Citizen Blasts OWS Protester over Socialism

Clueless: The OWS protester actually claims the difference between North Korea and South Korea is the people in the north get paid a decent wage. Huh? They are starving to death while toiling away for a brutal dictator.

Rasmussen: Voters Reject Socialism

President Obama hardest hit...

Rasmussen reported:

Voters remain strongly supportive of a free market economy over one controlled by the government and still think small businesses are hurt more than big businesses when the government does get involved.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 72% of Likely U.S. Voters believe a free market economy is better than an economy managed by the government. Just 14% think a government-managed economy is better. Another 14% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here).

Republicans and unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly prefer a free market approach. Among these segments of the electorate, the number preferring a government-managed economy is in the single digits.

Among Democrats, 48% say a free market is better, but 29% think a government-managed economy is the answer. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure.

Paul Krugman: America The Banana Republic Would Be Socialist Like Europe if We Weren't So Racist (video)

 Socialism is bad. It kills individual initiative. That's why Americans reject it.