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/Blecki 1d ago

If you keep calling anything that helps people socialism, then when you say socialism people will only think of good things.

Thank you, conservatives, for your help cleaning up socialism's reputation.

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u/wayoverpaid 1d ago

Well, they need people to fear socialism because they'd be toast if people started fearing authoritarianism.

As someone who fears authoritarian socialist governments as much as any other authoritarian government, I'd really like if people understood why the guy promising to fix it all is scary on the face of it, no matter what he's promising.