Republicans don't like to help anybody but themselves, so they call anything other than paying more than .001 % in taxes socialism.
People in America are confused about what communism truly is. Communism is when the government invades your home, confiscates all your property, take your sons to slave labor and your daughters to be the sexual pets of Party members, and then tell you that from now on you will work at a certain job whether you like it or not, and then all you produce will belong to the government, which will give back to you whatever it wants, usually just the minimum to keep you alive and laboring. That is communism.
Feeding little children that are starving in the streets who's parents are unable to feed them because they are shiftless bums is not communism: it is Human decency. Hell, even animals have that decency. Cubs that are orfans will often by fed by other adults in the pack. Many conservatives believe that, by allowing the children to starve, you will shame the parents into getting jobs. This is cruel and illogical. Even if it works, you are cruelly punishing children who didn't do anything to deserve this. It is not their fault that their parents had them without being able to afford them and are conscientiousless and won't support them. If the parents had them without being able to afford them, it is a good clue that they won't be shamed into getting jobs by the hungry cries of their starving children. A rational, truly libertarian society punishes the perpetrators of a situation with victims and not the victims themselves. I say feed, house and educate the children both with formal knowledge and morals, so that they won't turn out like their parents, and punish the parents severely with forced labor for their shamelessness and irresponsibility. This is how a truly rational and enlightened society handles the issue. Americans are deeply confused about the role of government in a free society, and what constitutes communism and not. Conservatives see government intervention of any sort to correct social ills as "communism", whilst in reality the government is justified to step on and take a lead in correcting social issues in many cases.
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