Which of these is more insufferable?

[SWE]

[Antonio the Sixth]

Do you have any example of the latter?

[they don't love you like i love you]

Option 1 because option 2 is a direct result of it.

[SWE]

Do you have any example of the latter?

tots4real
obama

Obama doesn't claim to be a socialist, though plenty of his supporters do, because they support public roads.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Do you have any example of the latter?

tots4real
obama

Obama doesn't claim to be a socialist, though plenty of his supporters do, because they support public roads.

Again, care to make a precise example? Because I don't think I've ever met any such people.

[Cryptic]

Option 1. 

Honestly, don't think I've ever encountered option 2.

[H. Ross Peron]

Option 1. 

Honestly, don't think I've ever encountered option 2.

[SWE]

Do you have any example of the latter?

tots4real
obama

Obama doesn't claim to be a socialist, though plenty of his supporters do, because they support public roads.

Again, care to make a precise example? Because I don't think I've ever met any such people.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/29/1078852/-75-Ways-Socialism-Has-Improved-America

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

They are basically two sides of the same irritating coin. We can't just declare that anything a government does is socialism - was Ancient Egypt a socialist state because the Pharaohs built pyramids?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Do you have any example of the latter?

tots4real
obama

Obama doesn't claim to be a socialist, though plenty of his supporters do, because they support public roads.

Again, care to make a precise example? Because I don't think I've ever met any such people.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/29/1078852/-75-Ways-Socialism-Has-Improved-America

Is this sarcastic? It's far too ridiculous to be serious.

[Deus Naturae]

Do you have any example of the latter?

tots4real
obama

Obama doesn't claim to be a socialist, though plenty of his supporters do, because they support public roads.

Again, care to make a precise example? Because I don't think I've ever met any such people.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/29/1078852/-75-Ways-Socialism-Has-Improved-America

Using that article's logic, giving money to oil companies and weapons contractors are forms of socialism because they're taxpayer-funded. You don't seriously agree with that, do you?

Edit: LOL sorry, somehow I didn't see what you were responding to.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Both are terrible, but anyone who is not explicitly a socialist could cry socialism and remain true to their ideology while crying “socialism.” On the other hand, you have people like Phwezer.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Option 1, because it makes even sensible conservatives look like ignorant buffoons.

[AggregateDemand]

Does Option 2 exist?

I've met liberals who support any action because they believe government is a morality dispensary, but I've not met anyone who gives blanket endorsements for social collectivism. Perhaps a few exist on Atlas, but they are apparitions of cyberspace.

[Indy Texas]

This is the result of not teaching history in schools.

If we did, people would understand that the "socialist" legislative platforms of both the Republican President Roosevelt and the Democratic President Roosevelt were enacted in part to stop socialism or communism from gaining significant support in the United States.

[GaussLaw]

Option 1.  IndyTX has a very good point, though there are also a lot of historically savvy people who are also guilty of Option 1.  The socialist card is an old trick, dating back to the American Liberty League.

Option 2 is strange and the only thing I have heard like it is some random Harry Truman quote.

[AggregateDemand]

This is the result of not teaching history in schools.

If we did, people would understand that the "socialist" legislative platforms of both the Republican President Roosevelt and the Democratic President Roosevelt were enacted in part to stop socialism or communism from gaining significant support in the United States.

Most of us have probably heard the arguments for socioeconomic intervention as a means of preventing poor voters from attacking the pricing and allocation functions of markets. Are those arguments still relevant?

Our entitlements and transfer payments have now institutionalized poverty for working class Americans, and FICA appears to have inadvertently shifted poverty from the elderly to the youngs. Our entitlements do indeed appear to be nothing more than buying allegiances, rather than comprehensive economic policy. Why does the pro-market motivation behind the New Deal and possibly the Great Society exonerate them from Republican criticism?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Option 2 (normal)

[they don't love you like i love you]

What everyone seems to be missing is that if some people rail on that Obamacare/Social Security/public education whatever is socialism, then people who like those things will decide socialism is a good thing. After all what percentage of Americans are socialist using the Tea Party's definition? Hence any liberals or unsocialist people claiming to be is basically because of the former. If Tea Party morons want to rave about Obama being a socialist, than basically anyone who voted for him is going to view socialism in a more positive light.

[Cory]

Option 1, duh.

[BaconBacon96]

Option 1 because it's a hell of a lot more prevalent.

[Sopranos Republican]

Option 1, because it tends to prevent any real progress that could be made in this country.