{"id":105175,"date":"2021-07-14T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=105175"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:36:39","slug":"stop-with-the-labels-like-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=105175","title":{"rendered":"Stop With The Labels Like Socialist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- RSR AD 1 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"7759247395\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=105175\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=105175\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105176 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Label_Stop1__03895.1369085194-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Label_Stop1__03895.1369085194-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Label_Stop1__03895.1369085194-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Label_Stop1__03895.1369085194-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Label_Stop1__03895.1369085194.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My Mother \u2013 a Bible-Thumping, Trump-Loving, sick sad woman \u2013 spat the word \u201csocialist\u201d in my face like she had just gotten a spoonful of rancid pea-soup. It was said with the same vehemence as she would have said \u201charlot\u201d, \u201cheathen\u201d, or \u201cwhore.\u201d I\u2019m surprised she didn\u2019t grab one of her many crosses hung upon her walls to expel the devil out of me.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I understand why people of their generation \u2013 Boomers if you will \u2013 have such a disgust of Socialism and Communism. They lived with threats from Communist China and Soviet Russia. They learned to \u201cduck and cover\u201d in school, in the event of a nuclear bomb. They\u2019ve listened to propaganda about Canada\u2019s healthcare system. They watch Faux News.<br \/>\nMy instinct is to rebel, embrace socialism, and get that red raised fist tattoo in a prominent location. The reality is, I\u2019m not a socialist, or, at least, I\u2019m not the Boomer version of a Socialist. I, along with 16% of fellow Americans, am a Solid Liberal.<\/p>\n<p>Solid Liberals see income-inequality as a major issue. They believe more needs to be done to address discrimination. They believe in a strong social safety net. They support same-sex marriages. Most Solid Liberal\u2019s identify as Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining all this to Mother would be even worse than declaring myself a Socialist. So, I just said, \u201cOK Boomer\u201d as I walked out the door.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bethany \u201cBST2\u201d Armstrong My Mother \u2013 a Bible-Thumping, Trump-Loving, sick sad woman \u2013 spat the word \u201csocialist\u201d in my face like she had just gotten a spoonful of rancid pea-soup. It was said with the same vehemence as she would have said \u201charlot\u201d, \u201cheathen\u201d, or \u201cwhore.\u201d I\u2019m surprised she didn\u2019t grab one of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22247,18030],"tags":[26942],"class_list":["post-105175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-columns","category-world-news","tag-stop-with-the-labels-like-socialist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105175"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}