So now he’s flaming the stupidity and ignorance of his base with the word socialism. (Funny, last week his buzz-word of choice was radical.)
Socialism/communism will never happen in the US (at least not in our lifetimes). It would take an unlikely extraordinary series of perfectly aligned events for this to occur.
Democrats can knock this argument down with 4 simple points:
- We are a capitalist nation, businesses and corporations are held by privately or publicly by share-holders or by members of the public. We would have to dismantle Wall Street and take-over companies to nationalize them (Walmart, Exxon, McDonald’s, etc. are NOT going for that shit).
- Banks and lending institutions would be nationalized, and a Central Bank would replace them. The assets of the 1% (and everyone else) would be seized. They would start off-shoring their wealth long before they allow that to happen.
- We would have to break from the Federal Reserve and print new currency. Once we switch from capitalism to something else our creditors will start asking for their money — the national debt might either be paid or defaulted upon which could result in sanctions, levies and asset forfeitures against us or even war.
- The executive, legislative, judicial AND military branches would ALL have to agree to this. The people (masses) do not object (revolt). Highly doubtful.
As usual more fear-mongering hog-wash & gas-lighting from President Cheetos. He must be real stupid if he believes we can ‘switch’ to socialism and/or his base must have no clue what-so-ever of how things really work (sad!).