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Winston’s Mom.

First thing I want to say is, hi Winston, Mom got a new gig!

Now that we got thst out of the way, let me begin here,

In 1961, America faced what conservatives considered a mortal threat: calls for a national health insurance program covering senior citizens. In an attempt to avert this awful fate, the American Medical Association launched what it called Operation Coffee Cup, a pioneering attempt at viral marketing.

Here’s how it worked: Doctors’ wives (hey, it was 1961) were asked to invite their friends over and play them a recording in which Ronald Reagan explained that socialized medicine would destroy American freedom. The housewives, in turn, were supposed to write letters to Congress denouncing the menace of Medicare.

In 1961, I recall a doctor that would send his wife down to Biloxi, MS with her girl friends.  He was into fisting for some reason but that didn’t stop him from penetrating everything.  He was a lousy (((tipper))) as I recall.

What do Trump’s people, or conservatives in general, mean by “socialism”? The answer is, it depends.

Sometimes it means any kind of economic liberalism. Thus after the SOTU, Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, lauded the Trump economy and declared that “we’re not going back to socialism” — i.e., apparently America itself was a socialist hellhole as recently as 2016. Who knew?

Ever try telling the lady at the methadone clinic you’re on Medicaid?  What a bitch.

Other times, however, it means Soviet-style central planning, or Venezuela-style nationalization of industry, never mind the reality that there is essentially nobody in American political life who advocates such things.

That broad from NY, always on TV, always smiling with her squeaky voice.  Whats her name?

Trump’s economists clearly had a hard time fitting the reality of Nordic societies into their anti-socialist manifesto. In some places they say that the Nordics aren’t really socialist; in others they try desperately to show that despite appearances, Danes and Swedes are suffering — for example, it’s expensive for them to operate a pickup truck. I am not making this up.

What about the slippery slope from liberalism to totalitarianism? There’s absolutely no evidence that it exists. Medicare didn’t destroy freedom. Stalinist Russia and Maoist China didn’t evolve out of social democracies. Venezuela was a corrupt petrostate long before Hugo Chávez came along. If there’s a road to serfdom, I can’t think of any nation that took it.

Who was it that wrote that book and who was he writing about anyway?

So scaremongering over socialism is both silly and dishonest. But will it be politically effective?

Probably not. After all, voters overwhelmingly support most of the policies proposed by American “socialists,” including higher taxes on the wealthy and making Medicare available to everyone (although they don’t support plans that would force people to give up private insurance — a warning to Democrats not to make single-payer purity a litmus test).

On the other hand, we should never discount the power of dishonesty. Right-wing media will portray whomever the Democrats nominate for president as the second coming of Leon Trotsky, and millions of people will believe them. Let’s just hope that the rest of the media report the clean little secret of American socialism, which is that it isn’t radical at all.

I do have a story from 1973 about a Danish john named Viggo.  We bargained a bit, but he started small.  First he asked how much to finger my ass, so I said 5 Kroner, and when he said he had real money i said $5.  Then he asked how much to finger his ass and I’m all well the first one is free dear, but the second will cost another $5.  One thing lead to another, and eventually we built up a lather using the hotel soap and I had an bottle of vodka in his ass while I was rubbing him out.  Doesn’t seem so weird now, but back then I might not have opened up the bottle and taken a swig after the fact.

What were we talking about?  Right, slippery slopes.  It starts small but if you keep slipping, it might net you $58 in the end.