Mike Solana

so hypothetically, if I said I favor free markets in most industries but I want single-payer healthcare and the government in charge of education, which side of your non-false binary am I on?

it depends, have you abolished the private option? do you believe i should be allowed to open my own school? purchase my own healthcare?

re: health insurance, personally I'd favor a situation like in France or Sweden, where private insurance exists but it's rare because the public option is so good. And I would define that as closer to socialism than our system, on a sliding scale

honestly, jeff, i think you and i are much closer — and folks like ocasio and bernie much, much further away — than you are willing to face

Bernie isn't my preferred presidential candidate. but the idea that this country will overcorrect in the direction of socialism worries me a lot less than the idea that we will undercorrect, or move even farther away

I think our disagreement is this: You see "socialism" as a totalizing ideology. I see it as a tool in the toolkit of all governments, one that most other democracies make much better use of than ours.

i agree our disagreement is one of semantics, you associate socialism with a strong safety net, which i'm not opposed to. but i believe self-titled socialists want *real* socialism, and are using our confusion in language to push that agenda. i also think they're succeeding.

in that case maybe our disagreement is I think you should be much more concerned with the conditions allowing them to succeed right now and less concerned with the possibility of their ultimate success