Ideas should be judged by their merrit as ideas, not as what label you file them under. The Republicans are hoping that the mere mention of the words "socialist" and "communist" will be enough by themselves to scare the average person into disliking an idea. The average American has been so programmed over the years to hate "socialism" and "communism" that most of them do indeed hate these things even though they have no idea what they are.

Another similar example is the word "fascism". Because a certain fascist government about 70 years ago committed genocide, most people think that fascism has something to do with genocide or evil. However, judging from the viewpoints on this forum, I would say that most of the people here have fascist leanings in their views of economics.

And don't be fooled.....it is all about economics with these terms, not about "democracy" or "freedom". Socialist ideas tend to favor the poor and lower middle class, while fascist ideas favor the wealthy and upper middle class.

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