Brian Moore, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate talks with Neil Cavuto. Naturally Moore embraces the bailouts and nationalizing financial institutions just like the anti-capitalist big government neocons and liberals. Moore says socialism would “turn over power to citizens and consumers and workers who will basically socialize our system and have a fair distribution of monies throughout our country instead of leaving it up to a small elite group of people who really conduct very bogus types of financial dealings at the expense of the majority of Americans.”
Really? And who will be the deciders on this fair distribution of monies? A small elite group with a total disregard for the rule of law and sound economics but equipped with capricious notions of collective fairness? That is the only possibility in a social democratic system, the turning over of power to elected kleptocrats and unelected bureaucrats. But that is the source of our current social and economic ills—that is the unconstitutional system that has poisoned this country for too long isn’t it?
As Ron Paul has said, “No matter how much the grand planners from both political parties deny it, many of their programs and proposals are socialist. Federal taxes, regulations, welfare, subsidies, wage controls, price controls, and interest rate manipulations all represent socialist interventions in the economy.”
The Socialist candidate has much in common with the Republican and Democratic candidates since they all have the same repulsion for constitutional limits on federal power and the same belief that more of the economic disease will be the cure. Probably Moore’s only lament about our current economic system is that it is more a right wing collectivist (fascist) than the left wing collectivist (socialist) system that he prefers.