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Showing Original Post only (View all)You are a socialist if you believe in . . . [View all]
Unemployment insurance funded by the insured
Jobs programs for the unemployed
Public assistance to mothers with dependent children
Health insurance for all even with pre-existing conditions
Public education
Public libraries
Government funding for the arts
Feeding the poor ($256 per household a month)
Food inspection
Facemask required in an infectious pandemic
Occupational safety regulations
Clean water
Clear air
Citizen funded social security benefits
US Post Office
Public transportation
Tax fairness
You are a Repubican if you don't
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Perhaps not but they're all things a proper Socialism-based society would have ...
mr_lebowski
Sep 2020
#7
I would say a country that calls itself 'Socialist' that doesnt' have most if not all things on that
mr_lebowski
Sep 2020
#18
As with any good DU thread, the OP drops a grenade and doesn't stay to discuss it...
brooklynite
Sep 2020
#38
None of that is socialism. Stop letting ranting-crank conservatives define the debate
JHB
Sep 2020
#5
It's part of the mainstreaming of conservative terminology, forcing debate onto their terms
JHB
Sep 2020
#21
But since none of those things are unique to socialism, it does not make you a socialist...
JHB
Sep 2020
#22
my late mom put it this way. if feeding the poor , takeing care of the sick and eldry,
AllaN01Bear
Sep 2020
#9
Hardly. Workers Right to Organize have nothing inherently to do with Democracy ...
mr_lebowski
Sep 2020
#26