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Why Do American Politicians Dislike Socialism and Communism So Much?
They don't, they love the terms. It gives them something their constituents don't understand that can be criticized and berated in the most virulent terms without accomplishing anything. That is what politicians especially love. No positive alternatives are necessary, just repeated clichés from the old play book. Also, the insufficiencies of the current economic game can be made to look better by comparison, again with no need to think and come up with new ideas.
They don't, they love the terms. It gives them something their constituents don't understand that can be criticized and berated in the most virulent terms without accomplishing anything. That is what politicians especially love. No positive alternatives are necessary, just repeated clichés from the old play book. Also, the insufficiencies of the current economic game can be made to look better by comparison, again with no need to think and come up with new ideas.