Agreeing with the Green Deal doesn't make someone a Socialist.
Yes it does.
Agreeing with the Green Deal doesn't make someone a Socialist.
Agreeing with the Green Deal doesn't make someone a Socialist.
Agreeing with the Green Deal doesn't make someone a Socialist.
If you can't, you suck.
Then that's not true, because most Democrats agree we need more border security.
To our Reichwing friends whose only familiarity with "socialism" is thinking that it's a scary, scary word -- agreeing with anything that a (D) proposes is a sign of it.
Leading Republicans Call Western Europe "Socialist"
Newt Gingrich has constantly accused the president of being a "European Socialist", often adding in a reference to an all-but-forgotten community activist from Chicago, who died in 1972, but whose Democratic-leaning writings are thought to have influenced the current president
"I am for the Declaration of Independence; he is for the writing of Saul Alinsky. I am for the Constitution; he is for European socialism," Mr Gingrich told voters in Florida last week.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16583813
Leading Republicans Refer to Western Europe as "Socialists"
....(and let's not forget, rightwing message boarders have spent years calling western Europe "socialist")......
Lately it seems that not a day goes by without a Republican presidential candidate portraying Europe as a socialist nightmare. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum paint a picture of the Old World as unfree, strangulated by bureaucratic and inefficient welfare systems, and unable to reform and modernize. To these Republicans, Europe seems to be the antipode to everything America is meant to be.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.310f3f267a8a
In my experience, Reichwing posters want to have the freedom to call Barack Obama a socialist, to refer to western European nations as "socialist", and the refer to the Democratic Party as socialist.
But as soon as you point out that the "socialist" nations Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, France, Norway are pretty decent places to live, they immediately start walking it back and belatedly try to claim that what they really meant is that socialism is only just the thing that Stalin, Castro, and Mao Tse Tung were doing.
In my experience, Reichwing posters want to have the freedom to call Barack Obama a socialist, to refer to western European nations as "socialist", and the refer to the Democratic Party as socialist.
But as soon as you point out that the "socialist" nations Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, France, Norway are pretty decent places to live, they immediately start walking it back and belatedly try to claim that what they really meant is that socialism is only just the thing that Stalin, Castro, and Mao Tse Tung were doing.
Heh, very true. "Socialism" and "communism" are often used interchangeably, as well. They need to find some more scary words. When our generation is gone, those two terms won't have much of a sting anymore since no one will be around who remembers the Cold War.
In my experience, Reichwing posters want to have the freedom to call Barack Obama a socialist, to refer to western European nations as "socialist", and the refer to the Democratic Party as socialist.
But as soon as you point out that the "socialist" nations Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, France, Norway are pretty decent places to live, they immediately start walking it back and belatedly try to claim that what they really meant is that socialism is only just the thing that Stalin, Castro, and Mao Tse Tung were doing.
I've seen this so many times, it's truly sad. When they don't like a welfare state program, it's Socialism. When you point out that welfare states work very well, suddenly it's only Socialism if there is collective ownership.
Darn.
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I totally agree with what Republicans Rex Tillerson, Barbara Bush and Michael Bloomberg said and did.
Tillerson called trump a fucking moron. I agree with that . TICK.
Barbara Bush said out loud she couldn't understand why ANY woman would vote for drumpf. And not only did she vote for Hillary but she also banned drumpf and any of his family attending her funeral. I agree with all that. TICK.
And Michael Bloomberg QUIT the republicunt party because he was DISGUSTED with trump and all the republicunts sucking his tiny dick. I agree with that too. TICK.
Welfare states don't work well. $22 trillion or more spent on welfare type programs over the past 50+ years in the U.S. and the percentage of people in poverty, something those programs were supposed to eradicate, still exists at the same level it did before wasting that money.
By definition, a welfare state program is socialism. Welfare state programs redistribute wealth and redistribution is the essence of socialism.
Some of those Republicans are pretty smart.
So smart now means agreeing with you? That's stupid to think so.
The welfare states of Europe and East Asia work very well.
I actually agree, I consider these countries to be Socialist. But the Right seems to flip flop on what counts as Socialism.
No, smart is recognizing the threat that Trump poses to the country. I also admire them for putting country before party.