Socialism is not the same as a MIXED Economy

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32. Read up on the progressive movement. It has an ugly history.

That well predates the modern usage of the word.

I certainly don’t think modern progressives are like previous generations that went by that label. But at least here in the south it is still remembered and is why many of us want no part of the title.

Call me a liberal or more accurately a social democrat.

Well, first of call me a member of the Democratic Party!

If you do take the time to read about early progressive, especially during the Woodrow Wilson era, you will gain insight into the reason that some on the left wanting to stop talking about, so called, Identity politics causes some of us pause. Especially since the term Identity Politics was a right wing term to mean civil rights, or in the way the right intended it, black people.