So.... if the Republicans claim socialism is so evil, are they ready to BAN

[PA Democrat]

all elements of socialism found in America?

I know that the Republican party prefers people to think in black and white terms (socialism bad; capitalism good), but in reality we live in a society with a blend of both capitalism and socialism.

So, lets list some of the forms of socialism found right here in the US.

I'll start with these:

Social Security

Medicare

Medicaid

Public Education

Roads

Public Transportation

Police Departments

Fire Departments

Military

Veterans Administration

Unemployment Compensation

Public Libraries

Parks including our amazing National Parks

EPA

CDC

NIH

Feel free to add to the list.

[guillaumeb]

1. The GOP leaders are quite willing to eliminate many of them.

Except for the police and military.

[trev]

3. They've been trying to eliminate many of them for decades.

That's why they keep putting incompetents into the offices.

[guillaumeb]

4. A nice observation.

And they also defund those Agencies that they hate.

[zaj]

2. Yes, they are...

... don't tempt them. You'll lose this standoff.

[iscooterliberally]

5. Space Force! n/t

[Wounded Bear]

6. Of course none of those are technically "socialism"...

because none of those have anything to do with "production."

And yes, many (most? ) Repubs would be fine with eliminating most or all of those.

[PA Democrat]

10. Yes, perhaps I should have used the term democratic socialism instead

But truth be told the Republicans who are using the term to describe Democrats are technically wrong as well. They misconstrue any attempt to deal with the growing income disparities in this country as "socialism."

Republican politicians and their financial backers would indeed LOVE to destroy many of these programs, but I truly believe the majority of Americans would disagree with those attempts if they understood what was at stake.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. amtrak. nasa . nsa . us army. us navy. endowments for the arts .

[Leith]

8. Here's one that they love

The payments sent out to almost every Alaskan citizen, their portion of the profits from resource extraction in their state.

This practice meets all criteria for capital-S Socialism, but rethugs are all for it.

[vsrazdem]

9. Don't forget all the subsidies for oil and gas companies.

[shraby]

11. Schools

Parks
Street lights
Dams
Bridges
Traffic lights

[wiggs]

12. Dems need to get much better at talking about this subject. We are ALL socialists or democratic

socialists to about the same degree...because of your list, and more. most countries are.

But expanding any one of these to be more efficient or more comprehensive causes advocates to all of a sudden become 'soooo-shall--ists' like it's out of the mainstream. We allow this label to mean something negative even in discussions between dems, when it should be easy enough to provide proper context and get back to talking about specific programs rather than labels.

[wiggs]

13. They ARE ready to ban many of those. nt