Socialism no longer scares people. Has the word lost its power to scaremonger? [twitter.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.About freakin' time, but just yesterday there was an extensive post here equating Communism with Socialism, and quoting (wait for it!) Lenin as their authority! To which I replied, "WTF is wrong with you?", of course.....
AnneWimsey
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Aug 30, 2019
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It still works in the deep south and gets used quite frequently in discussions.
SonnyBubba
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Aug 30, 2019
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The right has just come to power with a vengeance in the US, it is bound to generate a counter reaction, which will make the left seem like salvation for a while. But you have to remember that the right swing was itself a reaction to a growing left wing domination of the political establishment. What you have to hope for, among the pendulum swings of reaction and counter reaction, is that the pendulum will one day settle around a consensus, because if the opposite happens, and the swings get ever wider, that way leads to madness and the end of civilizations.
Fernapple
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Aug 30, 2019
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@ToolGuy Yes that is true and a good idea. But even then you have to be careful, you have to remember that the reason why Hitler and the Nazis came to power, from being a tiny party with just three percent of the vote, was because the large socialist party was just three percent short of the votes it needed to form a majority government. So they needed a partner with three percent, and the rest is history.
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