I’m all for winning; you don’t get to run for president an infinite amount of times, so when you get there you and your supporters have to be willing to go all in. I respect that and I totally understand it, I’m a competitor. What I don’t understand are the, LITERALLY, hundreds of thousands of people who LITERALLY have no idea what socialist means. LITERALLY. You get the feeling that their nexus for the term is LITERALLY drawn as such:Nazis-Cold War-Communism-Soviets-Castro ergo Socialism ergo ‘Spread the Wealth’
So the way I see it for some socialism isn’t really a term they want to define or contextualize because that would require them being wrong about two things, one how they understand it and two how they apply it. In it's current usage in the campaign it’s seems to be just a synonym for ‘bad’, arrived at as a marketing ploy by the purveyor but understood through a distorted application of the transitive property by the masses.
I can’t help but wonder how many espousing this meme stand to have their wealth redistributed? I also wonder how many know about the Earned Income Tax Credit, in effect since 1975, which…SURPRISE…takes money from people who made and gives it to people who made less? Which again…surprise…most taxes do in some form or fashion.
I think the socialist rejoinder to Obama’s spread the wealth comment is pure hyperbole, I think the better term for him to use on Obama would be
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He’s a supporter of the Unites States of America’s IRS Earned Income Tax Credit, just like every president who has cut or raised taxes since 1975…ist
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He's a want's to roll back the Bush tax cuts...ist
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He's a want's to roll back the Bush tax cuts...ist
Neither have that same abhorrent euphemistic punch as socialist do they?
