"Welcome to Socialism..." (This guy nails it!)

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33. There are a lot of words that have been perverted by the media from what Webster says

In English, "Liberal" used to mean generous, free-thinking, ample, etc. In Foxese, it just means "Democrat."
In English, "Conservative" used to mean cautious, risk-averse, old-fashioned, etc. In Foxese, it just means "Republican."

In English, "socialism" used to designate a form of economy in which the government owned and governed the means of production. In Foxese, it just means "anything a Democrat wants or proposes."

I will cede this much: anytime there has been a government that has claimed to be "socialist," it ends up being a country whose people want out. I visited the "realexistierender Sozialismus" of East Germany when it was still that, and it was a scary place. I don't blame the people who lived there for risking their lives to escape. They even had laws on the books that forbade more than four people sitting together in a public place, because, you know, they might exchange ideas (horrors!). I was invited by the Cuban government to visit them for a few days in the 1980s. They chauffeured me around and kept an eye on me, as was to be expected, but allowed me enough contact with non-government people to get to find out what they thought of the place (they wanted out, albeit with a "the grass is always greener" overtone), and the government knew I spoke Spanish and Russian. I once even ended up in a situation where I had to translate back and forth between a Soviet air crew and the locals. The Russians never found out I wasn't Cuban, but the Cuban I helped out had bulgy eyes when I let on where I was from.