DI>   The House of Representatives approved a resolution condemning the "horrors
  >   of socialism" Friday morning in a vote that sharply divided Democratic
  >   lawmakers.

DI>   Lawmakers voted 285 to 98 in favor of the measure offered by Republican
  >   Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, the daughter of Cuban exiles, that
  >   denounced socialism in "all its forms" and socialist policies in the
  >   United States. More than seven dozen Democrats backed the resolution,
  >   including House Democratic leadership.

DI>   All voting Republicans supported Salazar's resolution. Twenty Republicans
  >   did not vote.

I may be ill informed on the exact details in this story but the word
'socialism' covers a lot of territory so banning it 'in all its forms'
may be a little extreme..

Canada is referred to by many as a Socialist Democracy, yet is one
of the most popular countries in the world people want to immigrate to.

The reality is we are just slightly more 'Socilaistic' than the USA
since we try to offer more healthcare and such at no cost to the user
rather than only being available to those who are wealthy or well
enough off to afford the insurance to cover such things, and we have
subsidies and benefits for some people simply based on their low
income, yet there's still lots of room for a person the get wealthy
if they are smart (and/or lucky) and work hard.

Like with most things, it'd usually the extremes that are bad,
and that tends to go for extremes in both directions.

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