A. I’m surprised most Americans would even bother consulting a dictionary for anything.
B. That they would have to look up the term “socialist” in a dictionary to understand the meaning speaks volumes about economics and social studies instruction in schools.
C. Some 51% of voters either didn’t care whether Obama is a socialist or were just fine with the idea of having one rule over them.
B. That they would have to look up the term “socialist” in a dictionary to understand the meaning speaks volumes about economics and social studies instruction in schools.
A few months ago during a discussion with a "close family relative", his rant went on and on about millionaires and billionaires, more taxes, more government, the rich, the this, the that... so, I remarked that he was talking Marxist talk. After bristling at this "news", he was defensive, and hung up in a huff.
Clearly, there is a sizable segment of the populace that somehow implicitly knows marxism and communism are evil, yet spout with remarkable zeal the leftist talking points that comprise those leftist 'isms.