Somebody Paid to Make Socialism a Slur
When your house is burning down, a truck the government owns shows up, staffed by government employees, and nobody calls it socialism. The VA owns its hospitals and employs its doctors, and the word mostly leaves it alone. Then in 1961 a record album full of that word helped kill hospital coverage for old people, and in 2025 a sitting senator aimed the same word, correctly, at a president buying ten percent of Intel, and the government kept buying. The definition never explains which way the word cuts. Something else does, and it has a price.
