CrustyMac posted:Don't confuse socialism with communism, especially if you you receive Social Security or Medicare benefits.
Actually one shouldn't confuse socialism and communism with social insurance services paid by the working masses; socialism and communism are economic systems. Neither socialists or communists even created the concept of social services or national healthcare; der Kaiser and von Bismark created that system.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ottob.html
Otto von Bismark also made a quote about the US that has always rang true:
" There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."