Don't feel bad about being labeled a "socialist"

[True Dough]

Fu*k the right and their attempts to vilify the word.

[secondwind]

1. I always haul out a laundry list of social stuff to give folks a better idea.

Things like public schools and libraries, buses, Amtrak, the military, police and firemen, airports, etc. Sometimes they actually “get it”

[former9thward]

11. None of those are "socialist".

Its your own definition not any conventional one.

[raccoon]

2. Great post. Nt

[RicROC]

3. if the word 'Socialism' pops up in casual conversation with a friend...

I have a good idea where my friend listens to the media. It usually does not take long, either, maybe only after a minute or two after the chat has begun.
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Yesterday, it happened again. My friend began to talk about all the European athletes who immigrate to the US to avoid that taxes in their home countries. He could name a thousand athletes who have done that.

I replied, I could name 39 corporations in the US who have not paid a dollar in taxes over the past 5 years.

He: But all those corporations provide millions of jobs and those employees pay taxes.

Me: So are you saying those corporations are non-profits?

He: of course not! They are in business to make money.

Me: So, after they have paid all their employees, what's leftover is profit. Right? And that should be taxed just like the employees wages should be taxed.

[JHB]

4. Insist Republicans speak English. Real English, not RantingCrank-ese

What they call "socialism" includes the US during WW2 and the Cold War.

[Cartoonist]

5. I think we should start calling it Socialism Security

Just to mess with them.

[lagomorph777]

6. Why would that make me feel bad? I am a socialist.

[brooklynite]

7. Another reconstituted definition that has nothing to do with actual "Socialism"

What I really don't understand is why some people feel the desire to make socialism acceptable.

[David__77]

8. Socialism is good.

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[Poiuyt]

9. Harry Truman on socialism

:large

[True Dough]

10. The more things change...

the more they stay the same.

Great post. Thanks!