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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Is it really either though? Do people really believe it is Obama's goal to take over every company in this country? Or is he just entering into partnerships with insolvent banks/companies to try and avoid what would be an economic apocalypse? What a lot of these protesters don't understand is that without these bailouts to AIG and Citi, our economy would have completely collapsed.
My issue is with how easily these words get thrown around. All it takes is wanting to add a health care program and you're now Joseph Stalin.
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Some, and that would include a number of the tea party folks (as well as plenty of my communist friends) would think that both parties have been getting into bed with big corporations more and more. And of course, it can be said that it starts with just partnerships because of economic necessity (I think many people forget that fascism was very hostile to free market capitalism).
And to those on the farther ends of the spectrum, I can easily see the position of the two major parties these days being closer to fascism than free market capitalism.
Though the other point was that this hardly resembles socialism. In fact many socialists and communists are pissed off that Obama is basically giving money away to big business for barely anything (they already hated Bush for his crony capitalism).