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(07-23-2018, 03:07 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Well hell some liberals have been trying to tell us for years that if we support a police or fire dept we support socialism as a way to cleverly trap us.  

I used to say those sorts of things. Then I learned that I was wrong. That was several years ago.

(07-23-2018, 03:18 PM)Millhouse Wrote: I said socialistic, not a socialist policy, as there is a difference in the two. Meaning, a government that mandates free college or free healthcare, is socialistic in nature like how Social Security is (which I endorse), but not full blown socialism.

Is there? https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/socialistic

(07-23-2018, 03:18 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Now while I admit there has been an increase in support of this overall based on other sources than just this one poll of 1994 voters, I am bit skeptical of this as well One reason I am skeptical is because I have yet talked to anyone that actually supports free college tuition. Even many if not most in here seemed opposed to it, which is odd for something that supposedly is favored by most Americans.

I know there are other sources, but I'm not digging for the numerous studies on it. One source to show I'm not pulling information out of my ass suffices. As for your anecdotal evidence, there is a reason anecdotal evidence doesn't stand up to any testing. One, we tend to talk more to people that see things in a similar way that we do. That's human nature. The other side of things is that if you broke it down beyond the dichotomy of "yes or no," you might find that some of the people you know do, in fact, favor some form of free college tuition. They would fall into what some polls typically call "somewhat support" for this particular policy. Trying to break it down to a yes or no for support ignores the large number of variations in the policy that have been discussed and proposed.