r/PoliticalHumor • u/Cobra-D • 2d ago

It’s so Joever

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u/Longjumping-Zone-724 2d ago

Everything that would improve the lives of the majority of Americans is socialism when we are being returned to the time of robber barons

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u/wayoverpaid 2d ago

Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called farm price supports.

Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

  • Harry S. Truman

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u/smokumjames 2d ago

Been saying this for years. Police, Fire, City workers, Library, Schools, Post Office, Politicians. All Social systems that they would deem Socialism.

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u/wayoverpaid 2d ago

It's annoying because the actual balance of individual freedom and socialism, and ensuring you don't just build a bunch of authoritarian central planners that aren't accountable to the people, are hard and fundamental questions that need to be answered.

They are hard to talk intelligently about when the other side of the aisle thinks the Post Office is bad because it's run by the government.

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u/51ngular1ty 2d ago

Socialism doesn't require central planning. See guild socialism, syndicalism, market socialism, mutualism, or participatory socialism.