Clearing up a common confusion

[blamebrampton]

This is a nation with SOCIALISED medicine:


This is a nation with SOCIALIST medicine: 


SOCIALISED =/=SOCIALIST
and, just to be absolutely clear,
SOCIALIZED =/= SOCIALIST

Please feel free to print this out and distribute it if you find yourself listening to the sort of people that have seen me screaming at the news coverage all week.

I swear, if I was an American and some of the Libertarian loonies leading 'community' concerns came to my door, I would scream: 'COMMUNIST CONCERNS?? AIEEEEE! Fetch me the shotgun, Fido! Time to shoot me some trespassing Reds!'

Admittedly, this raises the questions why an American me would have a dog trained in gun fetching, and speak like Christopher Walken taking the piss, but let's just move on.

Comments

[fourth_rose]

Given that these people use the insults "nazi" and "communist" interchangeably, I doubt explanations will help...

Of course, I say that as a diehard socialist who knows what the term means ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I have decided to embrace Barney Frank and loudly declare 'It's like arguing with a dining table!' when such idiotic attempts at rhetoric are trotted out.

Where are the intelligent conservatives of yesteryear?

[fourth_rose]

*nods*

A friend of mine always uses the phrase "like trying to talk French with a cow" on such occasions...

Where are the intelligent conservatives of yesteryear?

I guess that compared to what "conservative" has come to mean these days, they're all considered liberals now ;-))

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I love that phrase, too! And I fear that you are right. Oh dear ...