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[just_colleen]

I'm seeing on CNN etc about all this opposition to Obama speaking to students...WTF? Um, he's the president. I realize it's just the uber-conservatives, so why is the media giving them so much attention? Seems they fear he is trying to "indoctrinate" America's children with EVIL socialist ideologies. SO SAD.

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[tiwonge]

Media are sheep. They see or hear of a lot of people paying attention to something, and they think that makes it important.

[just_colleen]

All this opposition to even a whiff of socialist ideology is something I don't really understand about America...I really should find out where the roots of that fear lies before I judge, I suppose. But man, it just seems bizarre.

[just_colleen]

I mean, I live in what some call a "socialist" country, am I somehow harmed by that? If so, I don't see it. I have all the freedom I could ever ask for, and a great life. I am happy to pay higher taxes in order to have a social safety net in place if I need it, and also for those other Canadians who have less than I do. To me the only people who have any logical reason to oppose socialist-leaning policies who be the VERY rich, but that does not appear to be the case right now in the US.

[starlightmoon]

You're right -- it is the VERY rich who have reason to oppose it; they've subsequently spread the fear to everyone else: Socialist society = EVIL!! Same as always, if they skew the truth, they can get a good number of people to support them and serve their ulterior motives without knowing any better. :( It's pathetic, really.

Not that I specifically want this to become a "socialist" society, but I'm not stupid enough to fear something simply because of the label that's been attached to it. And I won't condemn something simply because I don't fully understand it.