Why are "Democratic Socialists" attempting to establish a whole new definition of socialism?

[JCanete]

38. Wow, how many threads on this, just talking past each other? Socailsm has been defined and redefined

over and over. People have a different opinion of what it means. How do YOU define Capitalism? What nations are capitalist? I have yet to see somebody who rails against the term democratic socialism even attempt to address this glaring omission in the logic of contributing to the panic regarding the term socialism.

Also, look at the polls for younger Americans. It isn't incredibly polarizing any more, and nobody should run from a title that the other side has attempted to define. Do you remember us all running away from the term "liberal" like it was herpies? Lean into it. Don't cede the opportunity to define ourselves and leave it instead to the republicans. Don't give the other side the ammunition of your own apologetic milque-toast invertibrate cowering. That is guaranteed to lose. We still reap the pupblic perception of being wimps because of that kind of shit.

Sanders has long defined himself as a democratic Socialist. It would make no sense for him to back away from it, and his branding has been picked up and run with by other candidates, reinforcing that definition.