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This was a warning because it suggested that the United States could follow the same path as Venezuela, which, despite its oil wealth, has become an unstable country.
It was an insult since it suggested that Democrats want to bring the United States to socialism. The word American has long been considered a dirty word in American politics.
"America was founded on freedom and independence – not the constraint, dominance and control of the government," said Trump. "We are born free and we will remain so tonight we renew our determination that America will never be a socialist country."
Socialism will turn the United States into Venezuela
"We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble pursuit of freedom – and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist politics has transformed this nation, which is in South America, into a state of abject poverty and despair, and in the United States we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism as our country. " – Speech on the State of the Trump Union, February 5, 2019.
You hear a lot this argument, not just from Trump and other conservatives, but also from Democrats like the former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg.
It is true that the Venezuelan government declared itself socialist in previous years, while the Venezuelan economy was better, and before some socialists took it as a model. But that was before Venezuela's leaders, like former President Nicholas Maduro, turned to authoritarianism and became undemocratic. But the path that will lead from the world's strongest capitalist society to an authoritarian regime almost transformed into a socialist authoritarian regime would be long and fraught with difficulty. In addition, the US economy does not depend on a state-run oil company, as does almost all of Venezuela.
Democrats are Socialists
"They Want to Impose Socialism on Our Country." – Trump in Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 4, 2018
Sanders is the only self-proclaimed Democrat Socialist in the field of Democracy 2020 – he should introduce himself – – and he has been talking about socialism for decades.
The other progressive Democrats do not like to be called socialists. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is bristling at this idea. "Come on, I'm a capitalist," she said once in an interview.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, another progressive who thinks the government can do a lot more, claims to be populist, but claims that Trump has mutilated the idea of populism.
Americans do not want socialism
"I really want to run against a true socialist because I can not believe that's what this country wants" . But let's see what happens. It will be a very interesting fight. " Trump at Tupelo, Mississippi, November 26, 2018.
As to whether the country wants socialism, that's another question.
Taxes are socialism.
"This is what socialism gives you when it wants to raise your taxes to 70%. It's interesting, I watched our opponents – our future opponents – talk to 70%. First, they can not do it at 70%. It must be probably double that number. " – Trump, January 24, 2019, at a business meeting at the White House
A separate idea of the 2020 wealth tax, Warren hoped place an annual tax rate of 2% on a household's fortune between $ 50 million and $ 1 billion and a 3% tax on wealth greater than $ 1 billion.
Medicare and Socialism
"Democrats want to attack health insurance to fund socialism." – Trump at a rally in Tupelo, Mississippi, November 26, 2018.
The idea behind this comment is a bit strange.
Medicare is a "single payer" health system run by the government. Elderly and disabled Americans. This is undoubtedly the most socialist element of American society.
Providing a "Medicare for all" is the promise of the most progressive candidates of 2020, although there are big disagreements about how to make such a promise come true. If the 2018 elections were an indication, we will fight in 2020 to determine who can likely become the party and the candidate for Medicare protection.
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