@Gods child,
It's simply astonishing you can't follow a simple concept.
People elect officials, officials make laws and social programs that help people. The government is for the people, by the people, of the people, citizens elect other citizens, based on their views to carry out public policy that effects them. Follow so far?
Quote:Fabian socailists believe that you cant take over something head on but gradually and behind the scenes you take command and over time your views become more and more accepted
Note the two italized and bolded portions. Now apply what I said in my first response...
Quote:Now, if this goverenment is of the people, by the people, for the people, how can "those people" take it over?
Now, unless God Child lives in the UK, than he /she is simply applying, while seemingly correct, a brand to something in America which isn't an official label. To bad socialism, true socialism is NEVER going to happen in America, people are just mad because they don't want to work and have any of the goods taken by the government and shared with the masses, understandable in a capitalist society.
Now, where were we, oh yea...Social programs are put in place by elected officials, elected by the people, to help the people. Now if the people are ones, that in essence run the government, through the actions of the officials they elect, how can one assume that they are taking over something, they already own? Change and social reform are fact, whether you like it or not, and they are not going anywhere, no matter how stale the reich, 'er right, would have America be.
Individuals...go look it up, the US has what? 280,000,000 of them? Guess what, they don't now, nor will they all ever think the same about anything. There is no way to please everyone, so someone is always going to be left out.