That Incredibly Awkward Moment when People Discover that You are Socialist

[Cleita]

14. Five years ago I was having a discussion at Thanksgiving with my family on how I thought

the country should run. They said, *horrors* "That's socialism!"

I answered, "Yes, I am a democratic socialist and so are a lot of people who want to save this country from what Bushler has done." *shocked silence*

I went further to explain that what they were against were the totalitarian dictatorships of Soviet Russia and Communist China and so was I. However, the conversation got dropped.

That was the end of that until this Thanksgiving when we all agreed that we liked our socialist schools, fire departments roads etc.. Also, my son-in-law, who used to work for the street department in a So. Calif. city realized that if it weren't for those socialized streets, he wouldn't have had a job or the retirement that he has today. Wow! How the pendulum has swung! They had been so propagandized and their friends were so in lockstep with that meme, I really had given up on them. I believe that what occurred with my family is occurring across the nation.