Gun Control: Say What you Mean.

[BGChuckLee]

socialism sounds great when you are in the public sector or at university, then you go into -the real world-. There's a reason why socialism is popular with young people, and then as they grow older become republicans.

What is "socialism" to you?

Back in my day, when I was a Reagan-idolizing Republican, "socialism" was a specific economic and political model. It mean in theory "worker's control" but in reality was "government control" of ALL private enterprise. You didn't call someone a "socialist" unless they used that label for themselves, and it wasn't a pejorative but a identification like "liberal" or "conservative".

These days "socialism" has become a shrill insult screamed at anyone to the left of Libermann.

Socialism is using violence to solve social problems under the name of 'the will of people'.

You can have full socialism, as in USSR, North Korea, Cuba, etc. Then you have partial socialism like EU.