Can I write in Colonel Sanders?

Bernie Sanders is running for Pres now. Doesn't that make you want to go Galt?

He's a Kenyan warlord.

Can't argue with that. Although fascist may be more appropriate. He sure wants to be king.

We have, and have had a socialist of some variety in the white house for 100 years, with perhaps two exceptions. In both of those cases the socialist camp in congress was strong enough to greatly slow or stop what those two presidents wanted to do.

"The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time" - Rand

Perhaps one of the most truthful statements ever uttered. We have a cultural battle to fight to help others around each of us understand it so that the 52% becomes a 0%.

I was thinking the other day WHY socialism is so attractive emotionally to people that they gravitate to it, in spite of it obviously NOT working anywhere its been tried. We humans are animals, not unlike the lions and tigers and wildebeasts that roam in Africa. They just hunt, chase, and kill whatever they internally feel they need to in order to survive. Its dog eat dog, survival of the fittest, and all that. Humans have the ABILITY to think and basically make deals with each other, team up, and survive BETTER than if they acted like the beasts in the African plains. I think the desire to avoid the harsh realities of independent survival leads people to socialism and a feeling that if "we all take care of each other" it will be better. But in practical terms, its an attempt to escape the reality of human nature.

Its not obvious, and requires some thought, to come to the conclusion that the only practical way to make life better in groups is to acknowledge and respect some basic rights of each individual. Our founding fathers had it mostly right, but I dont think it was grounded very well. Too much religion and escaping from the specifics of life in England.

Anyway, I am coming to the conclusion that fighting socialism needs to be brought down to the level most people are at- and to show continually how the details of it isnt working anywhere right NOW. We should be making a TV series about Venezuela and how socialism hurt people instead of helping them.

I don't think he is either. I think he is a communist who thinks he is king.

The Chinese are building their own islands in the South China Sea. Perhaps we should find a place in international waters that is shallow enough for island building, and declare the Atlas Republic. Of course, we would use the Rand as our currency.

Currently reading D'Souza's "Roots of Obama's Rage" and highly recommend it. In it, he says Obama is less a socialist than an anti-colonialist who defines world issues in those terms. Obama's desire to "spread the wealth around" is less an appeal to socialism than a call for leveling the playing field after the colonizing powers (including America, in his mind) stole wealth and resources from and oppressed the colonized (Indians, blacks, most of Africa, India, Indonesia, and on and on....). So it's is more about setting history straight than inculcating socialism (though he sees capitalism as a necessarily oppressive economic system). This is why Obama sent the bust of Churchill back to England; not because Churchill was racist, but because he favored holding on to colonized nations after WWII.
Americans can't figure out Obama because we see his policies through American history, which Obama never experienced. But that doesn't stop Obama from selling his world view in terms Americans can understand (i.e., Selma, Alabama; racial struggle, etc.).

The more reason to start looking for a place to "go Galt" to.

excellent point, kevinw

That's the scary part. Democrats "think" he's not. They want someone worse.

We have a socialist in the White House now.

Wow

Cool!!

Hu-rah!!!!!!