Decrying Socialism

There is a constant attack by the right wing talkers on socialism.  They say that we should all take personal responsibility for everything.  They go on and on about how the lefties just want free everything.  They work to obscure that we are the ones who will pay for all that "free" stuff AND that we will pay less than their system of privatization and profit.  It is a tenant of their faith that socialists are bad. 

Let's look at that for a bit.  The recent example of the tax scam comes to mind.  It was an example of the richest right wingers fully believing in a socialist agenda... as long as it only benefits them.  It was a transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest.  It was socialism for the rich.  

There have been plenty of other examples of course.  Like the way we import oil and other goods into the country under the watchful eyes of our military.  The rich and the companies they own cannot afford to protect these things long enough to bring them to market but if we spread the cost over all of the tax payers, well then, the rich don't have to pay their fair share.  They say that it is because the rest of us benefit from these goods so we should pay this cost instead of them.  We would have to pay them anyway to get these things into the country if the military were privately financed by them.  This is especially true in the extractive (mining) industries but applies to the manufactured goods as well.  In any case, this is the cry they put up when they want us to pay for their profit and keep their profit at the highest level possible.  In the meantime they make sure that there is a loud batch of proponents for the way they have rigged the system to support their socialist agenda to benefit themselves.  

This is an especially old story.  It applies to feudal societies as much to a modern, complex "free market" capitalist society.  Rile up the little guy so that they do not clearly perceive that their pockets are being picked.  There is considerably more to that story line but for now just come see this point with clarity.  The rich run the world and they only let their system of one way socialism to prevail.  They do not allow us to actually rule ourselves and they will strongly block any real democracy.