Feministing post
Jessica Valenti
Here’s my post from July 23rd on “Breaking the myth that America is a capitalist society” that Jessica Valenti (making Bill Clinton giddy on the left) refuses to publish on Feministing’s Community. I had also offered to write a Feministing rebuttal to anti-feminist IWF’s nonsense on energy, but I never heard back from Feministing. I know better than to raise a fuss with a woman, but since I had already written this posting, I might as well get some page views from it on my own blog:
We are all progressives here so I hope you don’t mind if I RECYCLE a comment that I made on another blog today and REPURPOSE it slightly for consumption on Feministing.
One of the reasons why I switched political parties from Republican to Democrat and started my blog against CNBC is my recognition of the fallacy that the US is a capitalist nation. I should probably thank Larry Kudlow for this recognition, for only when you hear his “free markets” mantra the 17th time in an hour of Kudlow & Company do you begin to suspect that someone is trying to brainwash you. Many American conservatives like to use Canada as a handy punch line and example of a socialist state, but here is a fact: US federal spending as a percent of GDP is about 20%. Canada’s federal spending as a percent of GDP has been around 15 – 16%, and declining. You tell me which is the socialist state. When you have that much public spending in the US, SOMEBODY is being subsidized, directly or indirectly, whether it is Wall Street, the petroleum industry, the coal industry, whatever nuclear industry we have, the defense industry, any industry that is favored by the political party in power. Just because we lack a national health system does not make us less socialistic. Just because we have lower taxes does not make us less socialistic, when we borrow so much against the future. In reality, unless you vote for Bob Barr and the Libertarians, you have a choice between two socialistic political parties and it is only a matter of federal government resource allocation and cash flow structuring preferences that should determine your vote on November 4. Fellow citizens, do not be fooled any longer by the myth of a capitalist America or a “free markets” Republican Party. In 2008, you have the choice of a progressive Democratic Party and a regressive Republican Party. Do not be fooled by the seemingly intellectualist economic double-speak of the right; today’s Republicans like government to spend EVEN MORE taxpayer money without accountability than today’s Democrats. Do not hesitate to let your social conscience – your heart as well as your mind – guide you. As for me, my concern is the all-important issue of energy. I personally believe that the emerging Republican energy platform will be far, far more risky and costly to the citizenry and the taxpaying public than what the Democrats are proposing, enough to constitute a national security risk in itself, and I will make a posting on this sometime. But if anyone reading this remains opposed to public sector support of programs that positively benefit the lives of American women due to some long-held laissez-faire or American capitalist argument, you can safely put that argument out of your mind.
Dah Big Man said
Why does Feministing sound kinda like Fem Fisting, O yah, feminists are all man hating bull dykes. Keep up the war on men, they’re going to do the same thing when the Soviet Union came crashing down, leave the bitches behind while they run off to find work. Let’s see the entitlement queens handle that bullshit
Ameriskanks caused the collapse now revel in it.