Well, and in the same vein, that Congress has essentially become a zero-sum game, where one party attempts to cut taxes, slash regulation, and prevent the gover

Well, and in the same vein, that Congress has essentially become a zero-sum game, where one party attempts to cut taxes, slash regulation, and prevent the government from paying for anything except for a larger military. The idea that the government doing anything except for defending the country is socialism is patently absurd, and the fact that so-called respectable people, in large numbers, keep parroting the idea is toxic for democracy. Marco Rubio, for instance, has called Biden's policy agenda Marxist -- this coming from a man who has spent his political career agitating against normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba. Conflating the two makes Cuba's government look more benign than it is, and makes the American government look more extreme than it is.