[Travis McGee]

The use of National Socialist is deliberate bait. I posted this elsewhere, but I’m going to bed, so here it is pasted.

Never use the vocabulary of the Left, it gives them every advantage to fight from their rhetorical high ground. “Single payer” is the euphemism that Obama used in his 2003 speech to the AFL-CIO, when he said it would take over a decade and several transitional steps to arrive at a “single payer” universal healthcare system. Don’t use “single payer in discussions or comments. “Low information voters” won’t understand what it means, and it actually sounds rather nice and simple. “Great, a ‘single payer’ will pay for my medical care. As long as it’s not me, I’m all for it.”

Instead, always call it National Socialist healthcare rationing. (With or without the caps.) This drives the proggys insane with anger, and they can’t help but object to that terminology. Their anger steers them directly into several rhetorical traps, actually quicksand. When they object, simply ask them which part they object to, the National, or the Socialist? Enjoy, while they sputter and fume with rage.

Then the too-clever-by-half among them will accuse you of not even understanding the difference between socialism/Communism and socialism/Fascism. When they bring this up, they have jumped into the tar pit, because we win every time when the debate is reduced to discussing whether National Socialist healthcare rationing more closely resembles the Communist or the Nazi model.

[Finny]

Don’t use “single payer in discussions or comments. “Low information voters” won’t understand what it means, and it actually sounds rather nice and simple. “Great, a ‘single payer’ will pay for my medical care. As long as it’s not me, I’m all for it.”

Instead, always call it National Socialist healthcare rationing. (With or without the caps.) This drives the proggys insane with anger, and they can’t help but object to that terminology. Their anger steers them directly into several rhetorical traps, actually quicksand. When they object, simply ask them which part they object to, the National, or the Socialist? Enjoy, while they sputter and fume with rage.

Then the too-clever-by-half among them will accuse you of not even understanding the difference between socialism/Communism and socialism/Fascism. When they bring this up, they have jumped into the tar pit, because we win every time when the debate is reduced to discussing whether National Socialist healthcare rationing more closely resembles the Communist or the Nazi model.

Excellent! Thanks!