Talk of The Villages Florida - Yor Taxes and the Obama Tax Cuts

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Posted by Guest (Post 170674)

I have a question.... Obama seems to be ahead in most polls. There are many of us who find his position frightening and at odds with capitalistic free market principles BUT, the polls suggest that the majority of voters do not have these fears. Here's my question: Are there historical precedents for a country of people to embrace socialistic principles thinking that their future will improve and be better only to learn, in time, this is not the case. Historians, step foreward and educate us.

Mussolini and Franco come to mind but we could argue they are in another class...Facists.

It is common for people to vote values during good times and pocketbooks during lean times...when things really get bad we look toward the "other". Hitler did that successfully did that isolating the Jews and turning the nation against them as the cause of all the problems.

Just talking history here.