Jim DeMint's freedom fraud

[Hannah Bell]

I'M DESTROYING freedom. Jim DeMint says so...I'm not destroying freedom alone. I have help. For example, from a majority of the U.S. population--DeMint calls them "drug addicts" (page 44) who can't stop using the government. Also in on the plot is "almost all of the organized political power in America today, is on the side of a larger, more centralized, more socialist government" (page 50).

Still, I come in for a larger share of the blame than most. In Saving Freedom, DeMint has decided to illustrate what's wrong with socialism by quoting from an old edition of my book The Case for Socialism.

Early on (p10), he focuses on an especially sinister statement by me: "Socialism is based on the idea that we should use the vast resources of society to meet people's needs. It seems so obvious--that if people are hungry, they should be fed; that if people are homeless, we should build homes for them; that if people are sick, all the advances in medical technology should be available to them."

To the untrained eye, that might not sound so bad...Not so. The vision of a society without hunger and homelessness, based on the principles equality and solidarity--this, DeMint insists, is a perversion of freedom, a distortion of "this elusive treasure has thrived in the United States" and made America "the envy of the world..."

http://socialistworker.org/2010/04/26/demints-freedom-fraud


(according to DeMint, America was only really free before it was the United States)

[aquart]

1. This man dreams of making the US into Somalia.