>>>http://www.gallup.com/poll/147881/Americans-Divided-Taxing-Rich-Redistribute-Wealth.aspx.
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>>>I'll admit it's not 100%, but 71% qualifies as an overwhelming majority.
>>>
>>>;)
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>>Since when do americans understand the word socialism? :)
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>Looks like trolling. Nothing but sarcasm or insults, please instead justify your view with a definition of what it is and what is wrong with so-called Americans' view of it. As an American, I'd like to know what you believe I think it is.

If you really want to know it. The word 'socialism' is missused and abused in the mudd slinging from the republicans to the democrats. It has been abused in many american debates and esspecially during the elections. The americans litterally have redefined the word socialism like they earlier did with communist and liberal, which in effect has driven the american political arena to the right for the past few decades.

Do you know the difference between a social democracy and the proven failed implementation of socialism in the USSR? Perhaps you do, but the gross of the american public does not. It became clear in the recent discussion here about social healthcare that even people that I value as intelligent really don't have a clue what they are talking about when they take the word 'social' out of context.

Pointing to the USSR as to to prove why the word 'social' is a bad word, does ignore the fact that there are very succesfull social democracies on this globe.