Rigby5
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To them, it’s a completely leftwing ideology when in reality it’s been part of the framework of the country since the beginning. It’s also stupid to say that communism and socialism are the same thing when in reality communism is simply an example of socialism. Socialism itself is a very broad term that can’t be defined simply.
Also, isn’t Trump the bigger socialist than Obama? His bailout to farmers was twice as big as Obama’s bailout. Are republicans going to pretend that isn’t socialism?
Billy, just to make it simple, look at socialism as a pyramid scheme. Bernie Madoff is a typical socialist, just like Bernie Sanders.
There does not have to be anything impractical about socialism at all.
Sure you can't have people voting themselves lots of free stuff, but that is not socialism.
Socialism is where you invest public funds into enterprises so that no one can control them with a private monopoly.
If there is no monopoly risk, then you do not have to do anything.
But if you want, you can make some stuff free, like public education.
That has its own payback and worth it.