[GSlob]

Unless we subscribe to radically different definitions of “socialism” [on the basis of my experiences in USSR of accursed memory I would associate it with the leftist collectivism; although the not-so-leftist Nazis also used “socialist” in their name - so it probably needs to be associated with collectivism pure and simple]- so, unless you happen to use some different definition of what ‘socialism”/”socialist” means, I find it implausible to associate Rudy with the meaning of ‘socialism” I learned by my own skin while living under it. His known position on taxation, for example, is diametrically opposite to collectivist levelling/redistribution mantra. Socialism is hillary’s “we are going to take your things away for the common good”. Rudy’s [past] experience with NYC taxes would mark him as anti-socialist, IMHO.

[Jim Robinson]

Call if collectism if you want. Same thing to me.

[Strategerist]

I was about to ask if there was a single person on this thread that had even the vaguest idea of what the actual definition of “socialism” was.

[Paperdoll]

>Unless we subscribe to radically different definitions of “socialism”<

My definition of socialism is suicide.

[truth_seeker]

“I find it implausible to associate Rudy with the meaning of ‘socialism” I learned by my own skin while living under it.”

Precision is not a FR strength. While the rest of America uses words like liberal, conservative and middle of the road, at FR anybody not a social conservative is a socialist.

And up to the post number here, there has not been one single word in this thread about national security, world terror threat.

The site is less and less in touch with reality, because those issues are near the top for voters.