On Socialism:
“Well, it means that one who believes very much in democracy and sharing equal opportunities with your fellow man as opposed to capitalism, which has the opposite goals.”
On Obama, and the two party system:
“Well, both the democrats and the republicans are still dependent on big corporate money and interest group money, and they cater to those needs and demands, and as a result they legislate and allocate and we see it in how they legislate. I mean, I don’t expect us to be terminating this war anytime soon, even if Mr. Obama is in there. He doesn’t support national health plan, I see an increase in military, I see, again, catering and pandering to the Jewish state and Israel at the expense of the Palestinians. They both support the Cuban embargo, the patriot act, the death penalty, the 700 mile fence. I think Mr. Obama supported Sen. Lieberman in his race in Connecticut over the anti-war candidate Ned Lamont. Obama supported the mining bill; he opposed the single payer system. You know, its twiddle dee or twiddle dum. I mean, they favor legislation that benefits the petroleum industry and the pharmaceutical industry – they support their subsidies, corporate welfare, they don’t demand accountability. So, these are some of the problems that the two party system are weighted down with. And, they support a system of capitalism that is based on the profit motive, and it’s certainly not democratic. I mean, decisions are made from the top down, where as socialism allows for worker and citizen control and ownership of corporations and they set policy from the bottom up. And they share in the profits. And they produce products that don’t have an adverse impact upon our natural resources, like our air and our water. Everything is based on what benefits mankind, what benefits nature, as opposed to what makes the most money. We’ll even decide, probably, to terminate producing some products that may make a lot of money, but they don’t help the community or the country or the globe. I mean, look around at capitalism – unemployment, outsourcing of jobs, people – forty fifty million people without healthcare, poverty, crime, wars. This is the system that is producing that, plus the loss of freedom and our rights, you know, and also forgiving the telecommunications companies and not holding them liable for invading our privacy and our rights. I mean, I can go on and on and on. Socialism is based on egalitarianism and a humane approach and a non-profit approach, and we are concerned about the quality of life and that should really be our primary impetus – to the ecology first, the community second, and the economics third – whereas capitalism reverses it – economics first, then the citizens, and apparently natural resources are last. So um, you know, I think it’s a very attractive economic system that we promoting and pushing and we feel it is going to be the solution to the downward spiral of our economic system and our social system and our problems with the ecology. I think the sooner we can transition to a socialist form of government and economy, the better off we will be.”
