John Hinderaker of Powerline has posted copies of 2 documents and quoted a third that show the socialist New Party considered Barack Hussein Obama one of their members in the 1990s. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised for someone who has been judged to have the most left-leaning voting record in the U.S. Senate.
You can view socialist ties as good or bad, that is up to your political orientation. COTTonLINE takes a dim view of socialism because (a) we believe it simply doesn't work and (b) it violates our concept of fairness.
Socialism doesn't work because it is based on a misunderstanding of human behavior. When working harder doesn't result in earning more, when folks don't get to keep a lot of what they earn, they don't work hard. Socialist societies are relatively unproductive. As a novelist once said, "socialism is not a way to share the wealth, it is a way to share the poverty."
Socialism violates our sense of fairness because it seeks to equalize outcomes. Clearly some people generate more wealth than others; our sense of fairness says they should end up with more wealth, in other words with unequal outcomes. That is capitalism, not socialism.
