> Whether it is "socialism" or progressive or whatever label you want to use, just because a conservative government just happened to have passed some legislati

> Whether it is "socialism" or progressive or whatever label you want to use, just because a conservative government just happened to have passed some legislation does not mean it was a conservative idea. I never said that. Maybe you should re-read my posts. And also you might want to stop your American navel gazing. Whatever Nixon or whoever said about some EPA or whatever is totally irrelevant to what I said. And that kind of American navel gazing is exactly part the issue I raised. Americans throwing around words like socialism without having even the faintest clue about the historic relevance of the word to other parts in the world. And Americans believing some of their local political issues need to be steamrolled across the rest of the world. They do not, so please stop.