Bernie’s not a Democrat, and he’s not going to be the Democratic candidate. Next.
Herein lies the challenge of opposing today’s populist socialists. Many incorrectly believe socialism to be public works and good government rather than its actual meaning - state control of the means of production - while Sanders knows the meaning and chooses the term purposely.https://twitter.com/OuttaMyLaine/status/1104931625471623168 …
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When one party labels everything that yields a public benefit "socialism," it is not hard to understand why anything that yields a public benefit is then defined as "socialism."
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They're talking about *Democratic* socialism, which is significantly different from what you described.
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@EvanMcMullin scroll about halfway down the page to this paragraph: Democratic socialists also believe strongly in democracy and democratic principles.https://goo.gl/rHoAY5 - 3 more replies
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For Republicans, socialism is anything that doesn't benefit them personally.
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Republicans have spent the last 40 years calling anything that involved any kind of government oversight "socialism". Now it only applies to the Marxian definition? Pick the motte or the bailey, you can't have both.
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The problem is that the GOP finds it strategically helpful to generically brand all Democrats as “Socialists” as a pejorative, thus robbing it of all meaning. Heck, they’ve been doing it in bad faith since before FDR.
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