That word does not mean what conservatives think it means:
Have you ever been pissed off at the fact that your neighborhood school doesn’t teach any of the stuff you want and it feels like you kid is just wasting her valuable time going to all of these pointless classes for no reason. THAT, is what socialism feels like. That is what the lack of value creation feels like.
Its not that you are afraid of losing what you have or that budget constraints are pinching. Its that the stuff which is available to you sucks. It – in extreme cases – is a world where everyone has a job but where no grocery store has fresh milk. It’s a world where every gets a pay check but no one can find shoes that fit.
That is what socialism feels like. That is what government getting in the way of the market feels like. In many ways it’s the exact opposite of the way this feels.
Mass unemployment, on the other hand, is a bitter, bitter pill to take. Let me recommend the Down But Not Out tumblr for more on that.
