SOCIALISM!!!!!

[Scuba]

"If folks like Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh make their careers off of using the word socialism as a slur, how bad could it be?"


Quote from Shane Johnson of Corryville, a union electrician who helped revive Cincinnati's International Socialist Organization chapter this year, which has about a dozen members.

[lib2DaBone]

1. It's Socialism if you want anything above minimum wage....

However.. if you are an Oil Giant getting Billions in Subsidies.. it's "good Business".

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Another brilliant quote right there.

:thumbsup:

[checks-n-balances]

5. Yes, that one and the one by Shane Johnson

We should note and quote them both when we can.

[elocs]

3. When it comes to words, Republicans hold to the Humpty Dumpty philosophy:

http://sabian.org/looking_glass6.php

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.'

I must admit that Republicans are masters of making words mean whatever they want them to mean, regardless or the words' true meaning. They make words like "liberal" or "socialism" mean what they want them to mean and then leave Democrats to spin their wheels in trying to defend their true meanings, and not succeeding. Too often we allow Republicans to not only control the debate, but to control the terms of the debate, and Democrats always seem to be on defense.

[obxhead]

4. It's the MSM that does that, not the Republicans.

Without the MSM reinforcing whatever the pubs want, their tactics would flounder and die as the nonsense they really are.

[applegrove]

6. The gop destroyed the word liberal because all nations are western liberal democracies.

Now they are relabelling the left as socialist.

[bobthedrummer]

7. SOCIALISM!!!

:fistbump:

[hifiguy]

8. I, for one, am

all for it. :toast: