Reich: Why Anyone Should Care that Bill O’Reilly Calls Me A Communist (It's a sign of the times.)

[eridani]

45. One good tactic. Another is to call them on what they are really doing.

As you pointed out, these jackasses have no clue about what "socialism" or "communism" actually mean, and just use them as snarl words. Why not go after what they are doing, namely attacking the idea of the public good?

In conservateive easther WA, all the state representatives this year objected to cuts in state funding for rural hospitals, putting them on the same side as lefty health care activists. Funny how they like public goods for themselves--they just don't want other people to have them. But in that case, the goods are no longer public.