Reply #22: Can we amend "Godwins Law"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

to include "Socialism"? :shrug: For too many people, unfortunately, Socialism=Communism but I don't think that a lot of people even realize that our country, being both a mixture of government services and private (but regulated) enterprise, is more or less, a "socialist" country. Not nearly as much so as Canada, UK, or pretty much every country in Europe but despite the fact that we have public law enforcement, fire departments, (still mostly) public schools, libraries, as well as regulated (albeit poorly nowadays) capitalism, people don't make the connection that we are, in fact, a "socialist" country. They also fail to realize that "socialist" initiatives that expanded government influence and assistance such as FDR's "New Deal" and LBJ's "Great Society", our country has NEVER devolved our country into tyranny and/or dictatorship. It can actually be argued that the closest we even remotely came close to THAT was under Bushco and its unwavering support for private business and neocon-inspired American imperial ambitions over public welfare and it wasn't even a legitimately elected administration to begin with.