On Apr 24, 2013, at 6:56 AM, c b wrote:
> http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/11/explaining-socialism-to-a-republican/
Sounds like an overly nuanced explanation, and an unusual case, in which the 'republican' listens.
My preference when explaining my pov to conservatives is to employ the 'corporation' argument, in which the government it portrayed as the creator of all corporations, and is thus a super-corporation. It has all the characteristics of a corp - officers, a board of directors, a legal department, and best of all - shareholders. Those would be us, the people. Equal shareholders with non-transferrable shares. Republicans and conservatives understand corporations, and seem to favor them. This argument makes all of them shareholders in their own super-corp, and when the argument commences, it should be easy to argue for the government to do a better job of extracting a profit from it's management of our resources, and sharing that profit as dividends to the shareholders.