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In reply to the discussion: Chris Matthews delivers the damn smartest reply I have seen to the "Socialist" accusation [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I've done post after post, explaining that the Democratic Party is not a socialist party. It supports capitalism, so we can have the American Dream, but it also supports social programs for certain things.
That is what Matthews believes, always has, always will. He's a Democrat. He's not far left, he's not centrist. He's a standard Democrat.
What some people don't like about him is that he's not far left, or overly partisan on his show (although he is partisan). He likes to have both sides on his show. Some people are used to the one-sides partisan shows, and maybe prefer them.
He's worked for a couple of famous Democrats...I forget who. Jimmy Carter, maybe, was one?
He's very smart and holds in that big head of his all sorts of facts about politicians, going back for decades.