I am beginning to realize nobody in America really even knows what socialism is... or even anything about their own society and history.
Where do they think things like 40 hour work weeks came from? Workplace safety regulations? Compensation for injured workers? Minimum wage? Pensions(whch pretty much are no more in the private sector)? Maternity leave? Mandatory vacation, sick leave, breaks? Liberals and socialists fought hard for those things. Nevermind programs like Medicare that are so fucking popular that any politician who tries to touch it explodes on contact with the hordes of old people who love to vote. Pretty much only libertarians are idiotic enough to oppose something like Medicare on ideological grounds (the way we run it is a different story)
Now it's just a bunch of brainwashed temporarily embarrassed millionaires who think being sycophantic toward business is the only way to keep the economy from exploding.
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