The stupid answer to rejecting socialism is to lash out against anything involving a social contract, social progress, a just society, or any other ideal for the commons, and lash out hard against all such just to be sure they aren't sneaking something y you. What gibberish.

Building a better society is not socialism, you dip-brain.

Socialism as a method of government includes taking over the means of production. THe US Government has veered so far away from that pole that it now outsources everything the military used to do for itself to the private sector, people like Blackwater, and have thereby (unintelligently) seriously inflated the DoD budget even during peacetime.

The US Government has occasionally had to intercede to prevent private business from failing completely--General Motors, Chrysler, Chase, Wells Fargo, etc. etc.--which is the absolute opposite of the "socialism" you are so terrified of. Evidently, you don't mind calling on the commons when your greedy turks have run your business into the ground.

This is ridiculous fatuous mislabeling.

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