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Cannonpointer » 19 Jul 2014 7:55 am » wrote: Really? Where? When?

The last I saw, you were using a definition by which every country on Heritage's list is socialist.

Here's a hint, troll. Countries are ranked from freest to least free.

Ranked.

Meaning in rough practical terms, it goes from relatively Communist to relatively Socialist to relatively Free Market.

Because there is no strict definition of any of those terms, the ranking cannot be exact.

But for real world discussion, it serves quite well.

But you don't live in the real world and distort anything and everything to fit your psychosis. It's stupid and/or blatantly dishonest to call countries that rank among the freest "Socialist."

They are among the least Socialist.

You have used multiple conflicting definitions, and made up at least one out of whole cloth - my challenge of which resulted in you posting the definition above.

The two definitions I cited aren't conflicting. They are two means to the same goal; control of the private sector either through seizure, purchase or regulation.