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John McCain: Socialist, Communist and Worse

Senator John McCain, a Republican, accepts government's role in Social Security, accepts the fact of compulsory health insurance, and wants to tax both. This is socialized medicine. John McCain has gone from being a social conservative to being a conservative socialist.

Richard Nixon, a Republican, sold out Free China to Red China. Ronald Reagan, a Republican, was once a union official before getting power as governor. As president, he stabbed unions in the back. This is a pattern seen in communist countries: to talk union and then stab it in the back. Under Reagan, the destruction of the middle class began. Under George W. Bush, Jr., another Republican, the working class was destroyed in his first term and at the end of his second term the upper class is being destroyed also. This is classic communist class warfare. Bush is not just creeping toward socialism, he is taking us to communism at warp speed when he has Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a Republican, nationalize banks and nationalize manufacturers. It is a classic communist tactic to accuse others of what you yourself are doing. Republicans have for years accused Democrats of being socialists while all the time it is Republicans who are turning the USA into a communist country. The USA owes over one Trillion (with a T) dollars to Communist China. John McCain supports this Republican communism. Why? Because during the POW experience that McCain cites as his only qualification for being president, McCain was brainwashed by the communists. McCain is The Manchurian Candidate.

John McCain wants the USA to stay in Iraq until our economy is completely destroyed. Why? To answer this question, you need to read the novel "1984" by George Orwell. The novel helps illustrate a principle of totalitarianism: to enslave the people, you must keep them ignorant and keep them always at war. Republicans are anti-education. And John McCain in particular wants us to be at war with Iran, with Russia, with Venezuela, and with any other country with which we can foment a war.

Why? Wars distract people from crumbling infrastructure, polluted air, polluted water, substandard food, bad schools, foreclosures, economic depression, crime, rigged elections, poverty, racism, religious bigotry, skyrocketing health care costs, adult illiteracy, inadequate mass transit, untreated mental illness, overpopulation, alcoholism & other drug addiction, gambling, traffic jams, prostitution, and a hundred other problems.

Try this test. Bring up a serious problem facing our nation in a discussion. Invariably and without fail the superpatriots will:

1. Start waving the American flag (subtext, you must be a foreign devil)

2. Say something stupid like "America is the free-est country on Earth" (After the Patriot Act?) or "America, love it or leave it" (Obviously you love it more than they do because you're trying to improve it while they want it to stay busted) or "America right or wrong" (Why would any moral or ethical person support America doing anything wrong?)

3. Literally try to kill you.

Watch out! The Republican wilding led in a straight line to the USA Patriot Act of 2001. You, being a mature adult, naturally suppress your impulse to pick up a baseball bat or a tire iron or a two by four with a rusty nail on one end and beat the hell out of them. The superpatriot, however, will yield to his or her basest instincts and try to kill you. Superpatriots are immature and childish and they run this country -- straight into the ground. We've talked about it for decades since the time of It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935). Well it HAS happened here. We need to lock them up in prisons and insane asylums and throw away the key.

It has always been said that one communist strategy is to destroy moral fiber. Republican family values include child abuse, teen pregnancy, divorce, and desertion. If the teen in question is your daughter or is black, then the Republicans condemn. But if the teen is the daughter of Sarah Palin, then all of a sudden, teen pregnancy is acceptable.

But Republican strategy includes more than destroying your family. It also includes: deliberate midnight dumping of toxins into creeks by the chemical industry, food additives that consumers have repeatedly said that we don't want, genetically modified animals and plants for food, underfunded schools, unfunded mandates (like every child left behind), credit card debt, mortgage foreclosures, Republican voting machines built by Republican companies, Republican voting software programmed by Republican software companies, voter intimidation, voter purging, voter caging, voter suppression, Republican courts that always rule against consumers, overt racism at Palin rallies, attacks on any non-Republican religious denomination, the abolishment of the Bill of Rights by the Patriot Act, and propaganda (FOX 'News', Republican radio, robot phone dialers). John McCain approves of all this because John McCain is a registered offender, a card-carrying member of the Republican Party.

John McCain's communism would be bad enough except there is more. Have you noticed that John McCain, once a torture victim himself, is no longer condemning torture committed by the USA in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the CIA prisons in other countries? Did you know that John McCain voted for the USA Patriot Act of 2001? Have you read the complete text of the Patriot Act? John McCain is worse than the typical communist. John McCain is a totalitarian.