Figured out why I've been feeling so muddled. Fever and chills hit hard when I got home last night. I took a "nap" that turned into a night of tossing & turning from burning up. Fun! I'd forgotten illnesses that aren't COVID* still exist. I did hang out with neighbours on Saturday.
Going to quarantine awhile & just get the rest of everything up at its pace today.
Other people, man.
Love the germers, hate the germs. 😷
(*OTC tests aren't a thing here, but this feels like something else anyway.)
Oh! But fever-posting aside, I have a cornerstone piece I aim to write this week about different meanings / implementations of political ideologies that get lumped together as "socialism!" during heated political contests.
Different anarchisms, communalisms, communisms, other socialist approaches to state & economy, implementations in both past and present...
Our political discourse is often *so* sorely diminished to a simplistic binary.
Do you have any bugbears you'd like to see addressed?
@MLClark People who scream "Socialism!" don't even know what it is. It's just name-calling.
The Republicans here in the U.S. right now are screaming "Socalism!" because the Inflation Reduction Act allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices. That's *capitalism* but their base is too stupid to know the difference.
Back in my politics days, my mentor was always called a commie and accused of socialism, just because he was a Democrat.
@peterquirk If they want to purge the U.S. government of "socialism" they can begin with Social Security, Medicare, the Postal Service ... Hmmm, come to think of it, all of those have come under attack from Republicans ...
@WordsmithFL @MLClark Socialism starts with the family unit. Conservatives often call the family the greatest form of government, but seldom notice the socialism at its root.