Abrignac wrote:
Iโm betting on 4 more years of MAGA.
well you're right about that part.
But honestly, I'm getting tired of hearing "socialist" from the right and the left. Apparently neither side has any f-cking idea what "socialism" actually is, and decide to label any government program as this.
Come on guys, we're better than that. Socialism requires that the means of production be taken from private hands and turned into a government run entity.
Handouts to the poor is not socialism.
Handouts to the poor rich banks is not socialism.
The ACA is not socialism.
"Medicare for all" is not socialism.
If someone decided to turn all hospitals / clinics into government run entities and make all doctors work for the state.... that would be socialism.
If the government decided to seize all steel companies and run them in whatever manner the government thought was best. That would be socialism.
I don't like any of the above examples (those which are socialism, and those which are not socialism) But most of all I don't like improper use of words to propagate fearmongering.