Republicans, Socializing

CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS, champions of trickle down, laizzez faire, neo-liberal economics, have, pandemically speaking, discovered the value of big government, aka "socialism".They must be spinning in their graves, and they aint even dead yet, at least, not physically. When big business needs help, everybody needs help. You can't even give away a barrel of oil these days, and we shall soon expect to be paid for filling our gas tanks.Tens of millions of Americans are the recipients of government handouts. Businesses of all shapes and sizes are being bailed out. Not since the great depression has socialism reared its magnanimous head so convincingly.The great recession of 2007 doesn't count; that was socialism only for the wealthy, only the big Wall Street banks were saved by the haunting specter of socialism. And yet, you'll not hear any right winger in freedom's land call all this what it is: socialism. They just can't bring themselves to that admission. Economics is a system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to members of a society. Done privately, for profit, its capitalism. done publicly, through government, its socialism. Clearly, the current mass spending, providing income to the economically damaged, citizens and businesses, is pure socialism. Either conservatives don't understand that, like they don't understand climate change, or they prefer not pretend that they do not, as they pretend that climate change is some sort of hoax. hence, they pretend that there is no socialism in America, when in fact you cannot swing a dead cat without encountering it. Without socialism, capitalism simply cannot exist. The folks at my local senior center, like so many other conservative and thus economically challenged Americans, have been brainwashed by the corporate media into believing that "socialism" is a deadly virus, a tin horn dictatorship, something dreadful which must never be allowed to infect freedom's land. The United States of America, where senior centers are publicly owned, non profit, non capitalistic, socialized...and the seniors gladly accept their non capitalistic social security checks even while they rail against those left leaning semi- commie socialistic democrats.