Another partially-baked notion…
I was just thinking about the way the right managed to demonize the word "socialism" in the early to mid-20th Century, and how they now like to label things like Social Security and Medicare as socialist in order to turn the conditioned masses off to those ideas. (First, let me point out that the right isn't wrong on this point--SS & Medicare, along with many other worker-friendly innovations such as the weekend are indeed socialist in origin & in principle.)
Well, it seems to me that every time they pair the word "socialist" with a popular program, they weaken the negative associations of the word that they spent so much time building up in the Dies & McCarthy eras (I was tempted to type "errors" for "eras" .
So I started thinking that maybe we should help them along.
Q: "What ya doing this weekend?"
A: "Weekend? That's socialist!"
And so on, until 2 things happen. First, the habit of labeling progressive things as "socialist" becomes sort of a joke, thereby diffusing the negative associations of the word, and 2) "socialism" gets restored to its rightful association with all those benificent advances in social policy that it brought to the 99% in the last century.
As I said, this is a PBI, a Partially-Baked Idea, which I throw out to the crowd in hopes that others will continue with the baking.