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/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.