| Liberalism (US version) | Socialism |
| Favors a multi-party system (i.e. conservatives can kick them out whenever they get enough votes) | Favors a single-party system. My way or the highway |
| Favors free speech | Favors acceptable speech |
| Favors individual social freedom | Prohibits all deviancy from the limited accepted social formula |
| Favors personal career fulfillment | Favors subordination of your vocational desires for the good of society |
| Favors total religious freedom and equality | Favors no religious freedom in order to create the greatest equality—absence of any religion |
| Favors taxes that require more from those who have more | Favors taxing you 100% and doling back out to you your "fair share" as determined by the government |
My response to her was:
Unfortunately you are confusing socialism with its more totalitarian forms of communism and fascism. Socialism is none of the items you have listed as its characteristics, but are every one the characteristics of Bolshevism and Nazism (without the limitation of rejavascript:void(0)ligion).
All of the European style socialistic countries are multi-party, allow free speech by constitutional declaration, allows private enterprise, but severely taxes its profits, allows personal choices in education, career and religion.
While taxation is higher in these socialistic countries, none of them are 100%.
Obama is a socialist simply because of his writings and how he feels (according to both his books) that the government has a duty to right the wrongs of who he calls the disadvantaged and under-privileged. His own writings in his book "The Audacity of Hope" show that his mentors are socialistic and anti-capitalistic (see Saul Alinsky's "Rulebook for Radicals"). He is socialistic by his own words.
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