It's more of the creep toward socialism that (rightfully) worries people, as an outsider, it seems that Americans fear State Intervention more than Socialism, but I rail against this as well.
It isn't right that war veterans should have to hand over their medals before they fly on airplanes in America, it isn't right that parents should be kept out of children's playgrounds in England and the kids be left in charge of paid professional strangers.
You may like to read George Orwell. Although he was a Socialist, he clearly saw that there were pitfalls into which a Socialist society or political movement could fall.
He wrote Animal Farm and 1984 as a warning of what could happen if th State was allowed to run riot.
The State is a bit like a fire - it brings light and warmth into a house, but letting it burn unmanaged and untended and it either goes out , or destroys the building.
Democracy must be tended, the State must be allowed to exist , but be carefully watched and controlled.
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Date: 1/7/11 13:40 (UTC)as an outsider, it seems that Americans fear State Intervention more than Socialism, but I rail against this as well.
It isn't right that war veterans should have to hand over their medals before they fly on airplanes in America, it isn't right that parents should be kept out of children's playgrounds in England and the kids be left in charge of paid professional strangers.
You may like to read George Orwell. Although he was a Socialist, he clearly saw that there were pitfalls into which a Socialist society or political movement could fall.
He wrote Animal Farm and 1984 as a warning of what could happen if th State was allowed to run riot.
The State is a bit like a fire - it brings light and warmth into a house, but letting it burn unmanaged and untended and it either goes out , or destroys the building.
Democracy must be tended, the State must be allowed to exist , but be carefully watched and controlled.