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I know this is not a political forum. But I guess cant help noticing how Obama haters  love to trash him by calling him a socialist and comparing him to evil people like Hitler and Hussein. I guess this is to try and even the racism score so they dont have to bother adressing the issue that there is no reverse racism. There are no sane black people who hate or discriminate against white people just because they are not black. Period. But now that we have a black man in charge of the country and their lives, there are many  white males who just will not stand for such humiliation. But as black people are often advised when the race card or issue of discrimination arises, "Aww get over it. Slavery is over."

Most accusations about Socialism are due to critics confusing European-style social democracies, whose benign policies guarantee a fairly comprehensive social safety net, with brutal, Soviet-style totalitarianism. In 2009, honest-to-Pete socialist Billy Wharton, editor of The Socialist magazine, stated that "Not only is [Obama] not a socialist, he may in fact not even be a liberal." To explain why the president was, in his words, a "hedge-fund democrat," Wharton cited Obama's refusal to structurally change the financial system, his refusal to institute single-payer health care, and his aggressive foreign policies -- all of which would be grounds for kicking him out of the socialist club. And isnt social security, instituted befor the President was born, a form of socialism?

I hear the word being tossed around by conservatives, Rick Perry, Gingrich, Sabtorum and the ever brilliant Rush LimbaUGH and other people who hate the poor who cry, “Obamacare is socialism!” They falsely equate Western European-style socialism, and its government provision of social insurance and health care, with Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism. It is dull-minded and cheapens the experience of millions who lived, and continue to live, under brutal forms of socialism. What we need here is not to strive for a perfect social justice — which never existed and never will — but for social harmony. Harmony in music is, by its nature, exhilarating and soothing. In an orchestra, the different players and instruments perform together, in support of an overall melody. Today, our democracy, a miraculous gathering of diverse players, desperately needs that kind of unity. If all participants play fair and strive for the common good, we can achieve a harmony that eluded the doctrinaire socialist projects. But if just one section, or even one player, is out of tune, as in the 'we are all separate, self-ndulgent mentality', the music will disintegrate into cacophony.