re: #18 freetoken
Good points but I will take exception to this….

“Marxist”, “Socialist” - meh, these are so poorly defined these days. In some ways we really are all “socialists” because we all believe that the government (at some level) has obligations (at some level) to support and take care of people, and we do that by raising taxes and spending.

Of course the wingnuts have been abusing the socialist thing for years but there are real socialists. OWS has served as a reminder to me that real Marxists, communists etc are still around. Most of them are quite open about it so I usually try to reserve the term for people who identify themselves as being Marxists, (etc).
I still use the terms moonnbat, hippie, wingnut fairly loosely but they’re pretty vague terms anyways.