Being unable to get away from news of the upcoming election in the states, you end up hearing commentators or quick interviews of people in the streets. One of the things that I keep on hearing is the word "socialism". It seems to being used in the same context as "child molester" or "terrorist".
Maybe I'm getting socialism confused with social programs like universal healthcare, but it seems like in the US if anything even smells like a social run anything, then clearly it's communist and the voters will be forced to eat their own young.
I just don't get it. And maybe I don't have to. I just don't understand the arguments against some social programs, and by taking one, you'll have to convert everything. Life isn't that black and white. It's a choose your own adventure.
Yeah. It's definitely fallout from the cold war era, where communists, and anything related to communists threatened the American way of life. The US definitely has a very different political climate from Canada. Even the Democrats who are the most left wing, and therefore the most sociali5t, are only about as sociali5t as our Conservatives, who are our most right wing party out of the 5 major parties.
ReplyDeleteOh, and another thing, sociali5t might be a bad word for the US, because it doesn't get through spam filters on certain blogs, because it contains the work ciali s