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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
socialism is like a dirty word in this country. it is strange because most normal americans i've met favor the few socialist vestiges we have leftover from the fdr era - medicare, medicaid, social security. but ideologically they have been trained to resist any sign of encroaching socialism.
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It's a buzzword. I have the following exchange with an embarrassing number of people:
"Obama is running this country into the ground."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because he's a damn socialist!"
"Do you actually know what socialism is?"
Que some vague attempt at an explanation. I've even heard people say it's what Muslims in the Middle East practice. Read a god damned pamphlet sometime, man.