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Socialist, communist, socialist, communist.
Learn the difference, per Google AI.
Social programs are taxpayer-funded public services, like roads, public schools, and Medicare. They operate within a capitalist free-market system to ensure collective well-being and basic safety nets, and do not abolish private property or market competition.
Communism is a stateless, classless political ideology where all means of productionsuch as factories and farmsare collectively owned, with the total elimination of private property. Social programs are not communism; they are a feature of mixed economies
For socialism:
Social programs (like public schools, roads, Social Security, and Medicare) are government-funded services designed to protect citizens, promote the general welfare, and stabilize a capitalist economy. They do not change who owns the businesses or the means of production.
Socialism, on the other hand, is an economic system. It requires that the means of production (e.g., factories, farms, and businesses) be owned and managed collectively by the workers or the public, rather than by private individuals.Experts and economists across platforms like Quora and Public Seminar generally agree that conflating the two is a common political tactic. Social programs can exist in any societyincluding free-market capitalist economiesto provide a social safety net without dismantling private enterprise.
Universal healthcare will not usher in socialism. The felon pointed out we won the Cold War, pretty sure Social Security predated the Cold War and we won. Im pretty sure we won the Cold War in spite of having New Deal and Great Society programs, which we enjoy to this day, and our country is not collapsing.
The felon is brainwashing people about communism as the new boogeyman, all while helping *himself* to tax money, but is counting on people to think their tax money going to their fellow every day citizen is the problem.
And by chance if youre a MAGA lurker on here reading this (a couple of you have signed up to troll in the past), your false idol never cared about you. If he says he loves you, he might be right - but not in the way you think. Its not because he cares about you, but because youre a useful idiot to him to allow him in his position to grift like its going out of style. His life may be better, doesnt mean yours is.
Whats hilarious is any of you MAGA lurkers who call us libtards, also think someone with TDS had a weather machine to control the temperatures, hence the State Fair being an epic flop or thinking that any of us had anything to do with your false idol scamming you out of money in that crypto coin.
Newsflash: Libtards like myself couldnt care less if *you* reaped what you sowed and got burned and conned. Its the innocent people who didnt vote for this or who voted against this, thats where our concern lies.
Nobody is ever too good for their tax money to help other people in need. Our tax dollars are not more important than someone elses welfare or healthcare, and yes, social programs do operate within capitalist economies. Social programs do not equal socialism or communism, but considering how MAGA feels entitled to their own facts
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We have to get this message out to ensure people know the difference. Having social welfare has not ushered in Leninism/Marxism/Stalinism.
Remember the caravan boogeyman in 2018? Howd that work for MAGA then? People see a system against them thats only been further stacked against them since 1/20/25.
What MAGA *should* ask themselves is why the communism boogeyman when jobs are being lost now, job reports are below expectations, prices are higher, affordability is a concern, healthcare has been ripped away from millions, inflation is higher and despite the promise of no new wars, US servicemen and women, plus more than 150 Iranian schoolgirls, have perished due to Bibi getting himself a puppet.
Wake up, America. Your occupant in the White House wants you to think your tax dollars helping your neighbor is bad while he helps himself to grotesque amount to tax money.
My favorite president in history, Lyndon Johnson, said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
A 34x convicted felon is picking his own cultists pockets while brainwashing them that regular people are the problem.
And if youre a MAGA lurker and you dont care about any of the above, you dont love America, you love a 34x convicted felon and you hate liberals like myself. We will defeat you in November 2026 *and* November 2028, too.