If you have a democracy and the government takes over all the public services, such as public transportation, the media, health care, old age pensions and so on, the democracy is diminished by each takeover.

What you have when a democracy has just portions of just some of the services taken over by government, is a socialized democracy. The enactment of Social Security in the U.S. was enough to make the U.S. a socialized democracy rather than a pure democracy. Since then, there have been many other takeovers, just recently the takeover of General Motors and some major banks, by the government.

England is not a democracy. It used to be. It is now a socialist state, very similar to a Communist state except that the common people may still vote. Their votes are ineffective as the same government policies are carried out regardless of which party is in power, and they can be arrested and imprisoned for exercising free speech, and hounded by the government if they seek to limit governments power in any way. The British are no longer a free people.

This is the goal of our government, to, step by step, steadily take over all public services while imposing strict limits on free speech and stifling any opposition. Our government wishes to do away with our democracy and replace it with a Big Brother type of socialist state that will be very much a dictatorship.

If you’ve been paying attention over the years, then you can see that the same government policies have been carried out regardless of which party is in power. The only difference between the Bush years and what Obama is doing now is that Obama has sped up the process. Everything else is the same. The vast expenditures, the unhindered illegal entries, the expansion of socialist programs that Bush gave us, Obama continues.

You can have democracy, government of, by and for the people, or you can have socialism, government over the daily activities of the people.

Freedom of the people, or total control of the people.

You can have one, or the other. You can’t have both at the same time. This is something the American public doesn’t get, because it’s never talked about. It’s not part of our education in our schools. People like Social Security. They like Medicare, they like Unemployment Insurance, and they’ve never been told that these programs are socialist, and it’s never dawned on them that these programs are socialist.

Even when it does dawn, they don’t understand that socialism is bad, it doesn’t work, and it will wreck our country.

Socialism is Communism with two political parties instead of one. That’s the only difference, and it’s no difference at all since both parties have the same agenda.