It does when you use coercion to force you neighbor to pay for you do-goodery.
See, now the above statement is almost OK. It describes how public health care is a form of redistribution of wealth, like socialism, but then you follow it with:
Also, authoritarian socialists despots are world renowned for cowering behind the poor, elderly, infirm and the holy cheeeelllldrrreeeennnn as political props for their authoritarian cram downs
Which just goes right back to the whole Hyperbole thing.
You see you people are slightly right, public health care is socialist in nature. There's no denying that. Of course, so is Medicare, Social Security, and the VA.
But then you always go too far and try to associate it with totalitarianism, or facism. That's when people stop listening, because it's obvious at that point that your crazy.
You see, people hate Nazi Germany and the USSR, right? But they don't hate them for "socialism".
They hate it because they:
1. invaded other countries,
2. had single autocratic non-democratic governments,
3. inundated their country with horrible propaganda,
4. curtailed the free speech rights of their citizens,
5. spied on their citizens turning neighbor against neighbor, and
6. imprisoned or killed lots of innocent people.
Democrats may be a bit socialist, but they don't do or plan to do any of the above.
On the other hand, under the Bush administation practiced every one of the above except point 2.
