When will this meme die....we have socialism for everyone
Stimulus checks, extended UI, rent and mortgage forbearance etc etc etc. And it won't stop because it can't.
Stimulus checks, extended UI, rent and mortgage forbearance etc etc etc. And it won't stop because it can't.
It's really, really not complicated and the way the term has been stripped out of its meaning (primarily in the US) is just awful.
afaik _only_ in the US? or are there any countries where the socialist bogey man is used this way by countries without a working social safety net?
- Paying 20% of your paycheck to insurance = good capitalist affordable.
- Paying 4% of your paycheck to Medicare = bad communist too expensive
Americans are the most propagandized people in the world.
the US agitprop machine doesn't even distinguish between communist and socialist - both terms are used interchangeably.
Bernie Sanders and how he is viewed is a great example here: his policies would have been considered moderate in socialist Europe of the 60ies/70ies (and especially in the often cited "well working" model of socialist Sweden, Denmark Norway).
Besides there's no socialism in most or all of Europe either.
Seeing Bernie-people saying "socialism works just look at Europe" and then pointing at Switzerland for example, is not only worrying but also quite funny.