jayem
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What the OP seems to mean by socialism is how it is being presented by the most shrill figures of the Democratic party. It's certainly not about Social Security or Medicare. It's not a pretty picture to most.
"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents...
...there is the horrible--the really disquieting--prevalence of cranks
wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the
impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards
them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer,
sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."
George Orwell, "The Road to Wigan Pier".
...and he was a socialist himself.
It's not a pretty picture either when the shrillest and most extreme so-called "nationalists" gather together. I'd say it's uglier.
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