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Democratic Socialism |
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183 |
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Birthday: |
01/01/1827 |
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United States of America |
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Vote Only |
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About Me
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Best President:
| Works toward an egalitarian society, where workers are truly compensated for their labor, where capital is reigned in, and where all people, around the world, have a chance at a prosperous life. |
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Worst President:
| Turns a blind eye to social injustice, caters to those with capital and forgets his responsibility to all Americans, and basically tells the middle class, you're on your own. |
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My #1 Issue:
| Educating the U4Prez community on the reality of democratic socialism, to dispel myths and smears, and to reset the thinking of all away from selfish materialism and toward creating a society where all can flourish. |
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Direction For Country:
| Forward and to the left |
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Short Platform |
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The unofficial home of the unofficial party!
U4Prez Socialist Party
Concordia res parvae crescent
(Work together to accomplish more)
CURRENT MEMBERSHIP
Arjay
hgenovese93
Idahoan Virginian
Imagine89
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Welcome to the future.
WELCOME TO SOCIALISM!
This profile, and its accompanying caucus, are dedicated to democratic socialism, what it is, what its place has been, and what its destiny will be in American society.
Socialists are a much-maligned group, falsely lumped in with communists and accused of being extremists who want to rob you of your freedoms, tax you into poverty, let the government control every aspect of your life, and destroy the United States from within.
This profile is here to set the record straight.
CORE BELIEFS OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
--Using democratic processes to promote a shift in governmental priorities, toward creating an egalitarian society where everyone has access to the tools to their own prosperity, and away from the conservative mentality of personal isolation.
--Allowing workers to combine their bargaining power, through unions, to determine change in the workplace.
--Tearing down the superficial walls which separate people around the world from unity, including racism and sexism.
--Abolishing worldwide poverty, and through this, lessening war, crime, disease, famine, corruption, and other items which have plagued humankind since our inception.
--SUMMARY: By working together, by setting aside our petty differences, and by seeing that we are all brothers, we can solve any problem that challenges us, and we can make this world a better place for all people, no matter where they live. We have the technological means to do this, now we need the political will.
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More About Me
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What I Would Do As President
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Socialists have greatly contributed to American society, playing an important part in the Women's Suffrage Movement and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1930's. When capitalists were running sweatshops during the Gilded Age, socialists fought for workers and their right to form unions. They worked with progressives to make the workplace safe, to guarantee livable wages and a standardized work week, and to keep the titans of industry from establishing themselves as a permanent American oligarchy.
Socialists have always been the sworn enemy of fascists and communists. Socialist factions fought against Franco in Spain, Hitler in Germany, Pinochet in Chile, and Soviet domination throughout Eastern Europe. It is insulting to lump democratic socialists in with Nazis and communists.
Many died in the fight to defend their fellow man.
While many politicians and statesmen would call themselves populist or progressive, it is plain, from their action and legislation, that they promoted the kind of democratic socialism that thrives throughout Western Europe and most of the industrialized world. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal could certainly be considered a victory for American socialism, as well as Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
The years since World War II have seen socialism marginalized by a growingly conservative American culture. Joe McCarthy's hunt for communists was successful in unfairly linking democratic socialism with Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist totalitarianism. While many Americans have pursued the socialist agenda, most have done so through the Democratic Party. Today, socialists are considered a fringe leftist group by popular American culture. The reality is, socialism has played a crucial role in American history, and it continues to play a vital role in American politics and economics. It has proven a vital balance to capitalism, and it has saved America from its own excesses on several occasions.
If you want your country to be more responsive to the working classes, consider socialism.
If you consider basic health care a human right and not a privilege...
If you are shocked by the growing gap between the rich and the poor...
If you see the disadvantaged as simply needing a hand, and not just a bunch of lazy bums...
And if you think this country can do better than have a small elite with all the money, all the political power, all the breaks, while the vast majority of Americans fight amongst themselves for the crumbs they leave behind...
I invite you to take a serious look at democratic socialism.
Sincerely, Arjay.
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