re: Hijacked highly controversial topic! Supporting socialism ideas

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The US has been a Socialist country for around a 100 years. Most people are just in denial or don’t understand what socialism means.

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Once a society gets large and complex a certain amount of "socialism" becomes absolutely necessary for things to function.

At least if one defines socialism as shared resources and costs. The military, the highway system, agencies like the TVA, social security, the banking system, etc. all are shared and by the wide definition, socialist.

I would posit a greater percentage of Americans than 40 favors some amount of greater socialism than we currently have. Especially in realm of healthcare. Our current system with raging out of control costs needs to be reformed.

All advanced countries outside of the USA have some form of universal healthcare. Not one country that has taken up universal healthcare has gone back to the dog eat dog system the USA has.

In other areas, such as all of the retail sector, capitalism works far better.

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The US has been a Socialist country for around a 100 years

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No offense, comrade...but you're an idiot.

Social programs does not equal socialism