I’m going to break down the communism reply all you meatheads like to use, so that you can understand it, hopefully.
Calling someone “a communist” because you disagree with one policy position is just stupidity.
Communism is a specific economic system: collective ownership of the means of production, abolition of private property, command economy. It’s not a synonym for “government program I don’t like” or “tax I think is too high.”
By that logic every G7 country, including Canada, the US, the UK, Germany, is “communist” because they all have public healthcare, public pensions, progressive taxation, and regulated markets. None of those things are communism. They’re features of mixed-market capitalist economies that every developed nation on earth runs in some form.
If you call someone a communist for supporting universal healthcare, a carbon tax, or a child benefit, you’re not making a political argument. You’re just admitting you don’t know what the word means, and hoping the insult lands harder than the actual policy debate would.
Long story short, it makes you look like an idiot! And we all laugh at you!
@nakedpoetraven Just as we are born atheist, born apolitical, amoral, non-racist… it’s our cultural upbringing that skews things. Some accept what they are told…others explore different avenues. I’m glad I found naturism!
@Smileyyeg Finally…something intelligent from you. Everyone wants to use this idiot’s ramblings for their political agenda…as if he represents something other than the lunatic fringe. I wish they’d quit giving him some legitimacy.