11 Sep 2024 12:20 pm
At issue here is the right's demonization of the word "socialist."
There are many programs in America where the less fortunate get better deals than the wealthy do. This has been happening ever since 1913 when the 16th Amendment was passed.
It wasn't until Russia started gobbling up its neighbors and naming the conglomeration the United Soviet SOCIALIST Republic—even though they were not socialist but communist—that everybody in America started thinking that socialism was bad. And that exists today.
I can vividly remember during the rise of the Tea Party when some teabagger held up a sign that read: KEEP YOUR SOCIALIST HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE.
As I said before, America will be a socialist nation when the means of production are publicly owned. Not until. And, if that ever does happen, and it happens because the majority of the people vote to make it happen, then we will be a socialist democracy.
Does this answer your question, @Zeets2 ?
There are many programs in America where the less fortunate get better deals than the wealthy do. This has been happening ever since 1913 when the 16th Amendment was passed.
It wasn't until Russia started gobbling up its neighbors and naming the conglomeration the United Soviet SOCIALIST Republic—even though they were not socialist but communist—that everybody in America started thinking that socialism was bad. And that exists today.
I can vividly remember during the rise of the Tea Party when some teabagger held up a sign that read: KEEP YOUR SOCIALIST HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE.
As I said before, America will be a socialist nation when the means of production are publicly owned. Not until. And, if that ever does happen, and it happens because the majority of the people vote to make it happen, then we will be a socialist democracy.
Does this answer your question, @Zeets2 ?