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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 3646524" data-attributes="member: 18222">I will re-post my friend&#039;s (Hoaxster) thoughts on this from 5 years or so ago.I remember getting some weird looks when GW Bush was president and I referred to him as a Socialist.&nbsp; I was doing some reading the other day on Upton Sinclair whose books I read many years back and I was reminded of my classification of GW as a Socialist.I found this quote of Mr Sinclair very interesting, &quot;The American People will take Socialism, but they won&#039;t take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to &quot;End Poverty in California&quot; I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.&quot;The way that Socialism will become a major force in politics (at least in the United States) is by not calling it Socialism. People believe too much that it is inherently evil, without knowing what Socialism really is.The United States has been governed by Socialist (to varying degrees) presidents for 80 years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 3646524, member: 18222"] I will re-post my friend's (Hoaxster) thoughts on this from 5 years or so ago. [I][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5]I remember getting some weird looks when GW Bush was president and I referred to him as a Socialist. I was doing some reading the other day on Upton Sinclair whose books I read many years back and I was reminded of my classification of GW as a Socialist. I found this quote of Mr Sinclair very interesting, "The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to "End Poverty in California" I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them." The way that Socialism will become a major force in politics (at least in the United States) is by not calling it Socialism. People believe too much that it is inherently evil, without knowing what Socialism really is. The United States has been governed by Socialist (to varying degrees) presidents for 80 years.[/SIZE][/FONT][/I] [/QUOTE]

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