@marcorubio Mr. Rubio leaves out key elements of the narrative:
a. What he call 'Socialism' isn't. It's just managed capitalism, with nationalized industries where profiteering would otherwise exploit the citizens, e.g. police, fire, highways,..
b. True socialists are a tiny minority.
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a. What he call 'Socialism' isn't. It's just managed capitalism, with nationalized industries where profiteering would otherwise exploit the citizens, e.g. police, fire, highways,..
b. True socialists are a tiny minority.
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@marcorubio c. During that Cold War, Republicans used to call everything their opponents did "communism", to associate it with fear of the Russians
d. When Joe McCarthy's "Red Scare" witch hunt jumped the shark, exploding their hoax, they had to tone it down to "socialism".
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d. When Joe McCarthy's "Red Scare" witch hunt jumped the shark, exploding their hoax, they had to tone it down to "socialism".
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@marcorubio e. The GOP had already been whining about socialism since FDR's New Deal, because it meant higher taxes for the wealthy. They never stopped.
f. President Truman called them out for it.
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f. President Truman called them out for it.
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@marcorubio g. One of the last holdouts of corporate health care is in the U.S.. As a result, Americans pay double what the citizens of the other 39 of the top 40 OECD nations pay, on average.
h. The US also has worse outcomes: delays, more mistakes, shorter lives, more infant deaths.
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h. The US also has worse outcomes: delays, more mistakes, shorter lives, more infant deaths.
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@marcorubio i. The Affordable Care Act, as ambitious as it is, doesn't address the fundamental reasons why US health care costs double what the rest of the world pays, because it fails to quash profiteering. It just pushes those costs around. We need to give up this archaic h/c system.
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