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raccoon

(32,404 posts) Fri Jan 10, 2014, 08:17 AM Jan 2014

big time.

Seems to be the meme some right-wingers are pushing.

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So if you're against extreme income inequality, does that make you a socialist? (Original Post) raccoon Jan 2014 OP

Not that there's anything wrong with that. IntravenousDemilo Jan 2014 #2

yes. Democratic regulation of the economy is a form of socialism. Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #4

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1. To the right wing anyone to the left of Temujin is a socialist- or worse.

Fri Jan 10, 2014, 08:19 AM

Jan 2014

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2. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Fri Jan 10, 2014, 08:19 AM

Jan 2014

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3. It makes you a 'damn European socialist'. We all KNOW how their society is collapsing from too

Fri Jan 10, 2014, 08:38 AM

Jan 2014

little income inequality.

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4. yes. Democratic regulation of the economy is a form of socialism.

Fri Jan 10, 2014, 08:39 AM

Jan 2014

And we should stop being afraid of our democratic socialist new deal heritage.