I think that this country will turn to socialism for social justice's sake

[Mountainman]

Because of the "conservative revolution" during Reagan's term the gap between the haves and the have-nots widened. It grew smaller in the 90's but has widened again since the Bush selection.

If the rethugs remain in office, there will be no middle class. Just the wealthy ruling class and the working poor if they can find jobs at all. There will be no safety nets. No welfare, no social security, no health care for the working poor.

I just can't imagine or believe that the people would want to live like that. I tend to doubt the words of the freepers who are now attacking the grocery store strikers because I doubt the freepers are wealthy. I think that there are many laid off freepers who understand what I am saying and no longer post over there. They must get pretty mentally screwed up when they see the direction this country is taking and it personally affects them negatively.

So what will people do? If they are oppressed will they rise up and violently take over the government? I think they will try. There will be civil unrest much worse than during the civil rights-Viet Nam war era.

The logical conclusion to the conservative revolution is a social revolution. People will demand that the government provide social safety nets and health care. The working classes of the world will unite in forcing their governments to seek social justice.

There can be free trade and social justice existing together.

In a way I am glad the right-wingers are pushing us in the direction they are because we will only have social justice when people hurt enough to start demanding it and are willing to do something about it.

The freepers who call us socialists are doing everything they can to make socialism happen. They are working harder to make it happen than we are because conservatism is not about social justice but about individual personal wealth building. Conservatism doesn't care about sharing the pie it is about grabbing all the pie for yourself. The more wealth you have the more powerful you are. Then you have to start building the walls to protect your wealth while those outside the walls are finding ways to tear them down.