People here in America use the terms socialist and communist interchangeably because they DON'T know what they actually mean. It's fine if you oppose it as an economic system, but calling people communists simply for not following the Religious Right's definition of how the country should be run is just retarded, bigoted, and asinine, which is what most of those people are. What they don't realize is their own god boy would have opposed the capitalist system.
My whole point in bringing it up was to say that certain quadrants of this country have turned witch-hunting into a practice of finding not people who might consort with the devil and practice black magic but people who would ask you to actually live up to your Christian values and standards and do a little good for other people. Socialist, communist, liberal, etc have all become synonymous in the minds of the ignorant with "anti-American." The same ignorant who some 200+ years ago would have burned witches.
People used to get jealous if their neighbor had a good harvest and they didn't. No one liked the chaotic idea that sometimes you can't control crops, and therefore it's just rotten luck - not in a world that had a personal god. Nor would they want to admit if they were lazy. So you make up in your mind that your neighbor's success was due to the devil, not his perseverance and your bad judgement or luck. This bullshit attitude still exists. You don't want to have to help someone out, so you say that if they're disabled or poor, it's their own fault, or the devil's fault, or even God's punishment on them. It's despicable.
My whole point in bringing it up was to say that certain quadrants of this country have turned witch-hunting into a practice of finding not people who might consort with the devil and practice black magic but people who would ask you to actually live up to your Christian values and standards and do a little good for other people. Socialist, communist, liberal, etc have all become synonymous in the minds of the ignorant with "anti-American." The same ignorant who some 200+ years ago would have burned witches.
People used to get jealous if their neighbor had a good harvest and they didn't. No one liked the chaotic idea that sometimes you can't control crops, and therefore it's just rotten luck - not in a world that had a personal god. Nor would they want to admit if they were lazy. So you make up in your mind that your neighbor's success was due to the devil, not his perseverance and your bad judgement or luck. This bullshit attitude still exists. You don't want to have to help someone out, so you say that if they're disabled or poor, it's their own fault, or the devil's fault, or even God's punishment on them. It's despicable.
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