Mine, that is. How could I have missed something so blindingly obvious and simple!
What the wingnuts mean by the word socialism is one thing: taxes. It doesn't go any deeper than that into theories of economic organization, though some of them may allude to some fragment of something they once heard about.
My evidence: the tantrums pitched in commentary on this story of Deval Patrick's proposed 19 cent per gallon increase in the gas tax. The frothing rabid conservatives don't want their lifestyles to change, but they want to drive on roads that are smooth, well-marked, and plowed in winter. Paying for it? That would be evil socialism.
Most of them have an emotional age below three years.
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Conservatives, especially libertarians, don't seem to understand the whole concept of living in a society.
Humans came to realise that the best way for them to survive was if the worked together; so instead of just being a collection of individuals, they joined to create a society.
As part of that society, the all-for-one-and-one-for-all motto is taken into account. We all work as an obligation to be a member of that society, and we pay taxes that allow us have a functioning society, with government, fire department etc. And in return, we get all the benefits that come with being in a society: protection, technology, medicine, assistance if we fall down, lots of assistance if we are a vulnerable person.
Our predecessor species were socially organized even before they evolved into us. There was a social contract of sorts long before there was even the concept of a contract.
So what are libertarians arguing for? They want everyone to be individuals, to be socially economically independent, and that we only ever look after one another.
So what will happen to society? How can humans both work together and work separately.
It's a contradiction, and that's why it'll never work.
Libertarians are arguing for a libertarian man who is just as unrealistic as the new socialist man was in the 1920s.
New socialist man in the 1920s?
What the Soviets were going to give us that would change the money-grubbing world forever...
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