Re:What We Learned from a Year of Americans ‘Risking It’ Wit...
by yakshaving_jgt on Saturday December 29, 2018 @02:58AM
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> many of that ilk that I personally know would be hard-pressed to give an even basic, accurate definition of what socialism is (almost guaranteed it'll come out sounding like communism)
Yeah that might be because “The goal of socialism is communism.”
Just like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, the answer was staring you in the face this whole time: "socialized". You say that magic combination of "social" and any of "ist", "ism", "ized", and g-ddamn it, my Granddad didn't fight Mussolini in the war just to the let the socialists take over. I swear to $DEITY that I do not exaggerate that amongst many, the mere utterance is assumed to end the discussion.
"Well, that sounds a lot like socialism."
"Hmm, when you put it that way, I suppose we have nothing further to discuss."
It is literally the reason we didn't get socialized medicine when Truman suggested it in the 1940s, because the AMA stuck the S-word onto it at the start of the Cold War.
More annoying is that many of that ilk that I personally know would be hard-pressed to give an even basic, accurate definition of what socialism is (almost guaranteed it'll come out sounding like communism). It's as if someone many years ago said, "anything labelled 'socialism' is bad", and entire nation shrugged its shoulders and said, "okay" without ever looking up what they were on about.