What the Hell do Words Mean Anyways?
Like you (maybe) I get frustrated by stupid people. There have always been people who were purposefully stupid, but it wasn' t until the republican party was created, prior to the civil war, that we knew what to call them. Now, mind you, they gave us Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in the US and that was definitely a good thing to do, but they kind of peaked with that and have been nothing but trouble since. You can look that up. One of the things they do that irks me is their intentional misunderstanding of the system of government known as socialism. They insist that it is the same thing as communism. They really don't even actually question why there are two very different words when it is so obvious to them that North Korea and Sweden have the exact same systems of government. They are both communist because that's what socialism is; just another word for communism. They have a tendency to oversimplify things, to a fault. Democratic socialists have recently ...