Eddie,
"I would like to hear more from you how the Dems are doing redistrubition of wealth. When I lived in New Zealand, the top tax rate was 90%. Even in that Socialistic country, that did not constitute redistribution of wealth, only the Govt. desire to have a very broad and very deep Middle Class. Nowhere did they (or do we) have a situation where we take from the rich to give to the poor."

Eddie are you high. Where did the funds come from to braoden the middel class private donations? No taxes ,same thing here. If you do't want to use taxes lets take affirmative action. If all esle is equal on a Federal or state bid between two companies , except that one is owned by white males and the other is a Women or minority owned business, Who would win the bid? The WMOB by federal and state law. Even though the non-WMOB has more expirence and better references.

2. Such a very unique circumstance only applicable to the US (and a few other countries) - I don't see how that fits into any traditional (or transitional) definition of socialism. That was the Soviet Union and essentially what China is doing to Tiawan right now.

3. Much more akin to #2 than any Socialistic premise. There are only a few countries in the world that do not have a more rigorous form of gun control than here in the US. As with #2, this is much more of a Constitutional law issue than one of Socialism (which is fundamentally economic in nature). No it is unique to free people to be able to over throw and unjust govt. if all else fails. Cannot be done without guns. So in the transition stage guns along with other freedoms are slowly taken away. All under the guise of the state providing more security.