The Patriot Post® · Capitalism or Socialism?

Last week, we noted Barack Obama’s contempt for Liberty when he compared the American revolution with the one in Cuba. In his trip to Argentina, he made a similarly horrible comparison. “So often in the past there has been a division between Left and Right, between capitalists and communists or socialists, and especially in the Americas, that’s been a big debate.” Obama said. “Those are interesting intellectual arguments,” he continued, “but I think … you should be practical and just choose from what works. You don’t have to worry about whether it really fits into socialist theory or capitalist theory. You should just decide what works.”

Obama likes to pretend his just a practical guy and not an ideological one, but that’s all theater from a guy who’s busy living out the dreams he had as a leftist college student. Indeed, the collegiate fascination with Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is a big part of his rationale for normalizing relations with Cuba. Obama’s ideology and his practical ends match. His goal is to grow government, and capitalism doesn’t do that very well. Ergo, he says socialism sometimes “just works.” On the other hand, of course, capitalism works if Liberty is your goal.