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[Cassius]

I would say a country with food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance is already a socialist country to a large degree. So this obsession with likening socialism to extremism always baffles me. Democrats are socialists, and I don't say that in the hyperbolic contemptuous way that many others do.

Maybe I've gone off on a tangent, but yeah—not sure why socialism is such a dirty word.

The provision of welfare programs by the government is not a socialistic policy in the slightest.