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CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS are so repulsed by progress, which requires change, that whenever a Democrat proposes it, they accuse the person of being a "socialist", mistakenly thinking the term derogatory, and themselves clever. They seem blissfully unaware they they themselves are socialists. So are we all. Understanding this requires understanding what socialism is, of which they are evidently incapable. I have never met an American who does not display a distinct preference for publicly funded and operated fire and police departments. "Quasi socialism" a conservative colleague conceded. So be it. My fellow quasi socialist conservative citizens, unite! July 25, a day which will live in infamy. July 25, 1990, President Bush the first invites Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait in his well documented carrot and stick war crime approach, July 25, 2019, President Trump invites a another foreign power, the third, to influence an american election. On both occasions, Republicans accused those in opposition of being socialists, and worse. In 1935, at the advent of social security, they accused its advocates of being......socialists. They were quite correct. Socialistic social security has always been and remains a glowing success, having virtually eliminated poverty among America's elderly. My mother, born in 1920 and staunchly opposed to socialism as a fifteen year old, feared that she would never receive what she would eventually put into it. She did. She retired as sixty five, and lived to ninety three. She cashed every check, and lived rather well. The wars against Iraq went badly; again the socialists were on the right side. Left with nothing better, the Congressional Trump sycophants brought the tired charge out again; the radical left wing socialists, with their anti-Trump agenda. The one common thread is that whenever a right winger accuses a left winger of being a socialist, the accusation is always irrelevant, and the conservative is always talking about herself, without even knowing it.