Voting Socialism Down

UNLESS I'M DREAMING, and although I'm petty sure I'm not I wish I were, the United States House of Representatives voted the other day to officially declare that socialism is bad. And no, I'm not making this up, although, again, I almost wish I were. I don't know what the exact piece of legislation said, how it was and is worded. Neither do I know what the exact voe was. Was it by party line,with the Democratic caucus lining up to defend socialism, or was it one of those four hundred and thirty four to one things, with some recalcitrant leftwinger,like, say, AOC, holding out for cooperative economics. For the purposes here it probably really doesn't matter whether it passed a long party lines or with a bipartisan bang, and exactly how the condemnation of socialism is worded as it becomes the law of the land. Mind you, the new law does not in any way impede or prohibit socialism from existing in these United States; it merely decalres that socialism is not a good thing. by implication, one can safely assume that it is a law wiich does indeed, if ony tacitly, expess disapproval of socialism with the implied opinion that it should not only never be implemented in the land of liberty, but also, that it does no good anywhere in the world where it has ever been tried, has never worked, and all that. You've heard it all before, perhaps at John Birch and MAGA gatherings. The standard right wing "socialism is evil" speel. And of course what socialism really is is is an economic system, a way of doing business, and, more broadly, a way of organizing a civilization and living life. It is inherently neither good nor evil, as arguably neither is capitalism. It is absolutely hilarious that the lower house of Congress actually took this ridiculous action, thus leaving itself open to deserved ridicule and contempt. Maybe this would be a good time to introduce a bill into the House officially declaring that democracy is good,and that plutocracy and fascism are wrong. Of course, who knows how close the vote on fascism might be? Most if not all of the Republican caucus might vote in favor of it. What is blatantly, hilariously obvious is that the Republicans obviously have no idea what "socialism actually is. Most likely what they mean by the term is a brutal, repressive dictatorship government, suchas that in, say, Venezuela. A dictator whose regime imposes strict contrils on his nation's economy, allegedly on behalf of the welfare of "the people", in reality to line his own pockets and thoseof his closest supporters. That, as sopposed to socialism in Europe, all of which countries have a higher standard of living than the United States, and much greater economic equality. One must also assume that those Congresspeople who voted to elect socialism as the greatest evil in human history were not referring to Social Security, Medicare, or to public streets and highways, public libraries, or to any of the other seemingly innumerable examles of suddessful and popular socialism in freedom's land itself. We may never know what they meant by "socialism". Conservatives challenge us to name any country where socialism hasever worked, we give the U.S.and Europe asexamples, andthen,the discussion of exactly what socialism is commences,inevitably, because conservatives don't seem to government programs as socialsim, strangely. In point of fact, they very much are. Or why not just go right on practicing and benefitting from socialim in every nook and cranny in our beloved America, as always, while simultaneously condemning it as the greatest evil to ever appear on God's green Earth. A little hypocrisy never hurt anyone. Vote down socialism now! As they say, whatever works.