(04-21-2019, 10:55 AM)robkelk Wrote: And while we're asking questions, how the hell is "socialism" communism? Even Marx thought they were different things.
That one is easy. Their parents grew up hearing nothing but COMMIES COMMIES COMMIES during the Cold War and that anything that smacked of "Socialism" was the Enemy. McCarthyism at its worse.
I think Walt Kelley, cartoonist of the infamous Pogo, said it best when he misquoted Oliver Perry: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."