An aside: I really hate people willy-nilly throwing around the word "socialist", because it leaves me with no good descriptive adjectives for when the government expropriates several billion dollars from private investors and hands it to a labor union.
(I assume there must, somewhere, be a Democrat who feels the same about "racist".)
You know what I hate, the phrase "we're heading down the road to socialism/fascism/whateverism." If we took 2 steps down the road yesterday, and 1 step back today - are we really heading down the road or just trying to get back where we started?
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An aside: I really hate people willy-nilly throwing around the word "socialist", because it leaves me with no good descriptive adjectives for when the government expropriates several billion dollars from private investors and hands it to a labor union.
(I assume there must, somewhere, be a Democrat who feels the same about "racist".)
John Scalzi once quipped that in a socialist country, the government nationalizes successful businesses.
You know what I hate, the phrase "we're heading down the road to socialism/fascism/whateverism." If we took 2 steps down the road yesterday, and 1 step back today - are we really heading down the road or just trying to get back where we started?