AOC on the Pentagon budget.

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30. I think Confucius would get a big laugh from the arguement that

because the word "social," as in "social programs," has a root found in "socialism" somehow means they are synonymous, or even congruent, terms

You want to talk about "being funny?" That is hysterical.

FDR (and thank you for apprising me of the fact that FDR refers to Franklin Delano Roosevelt) listened to many people. That's a attribute of people who embrace pluralism and the marketplace of ideas. It is not, however, evidence that FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) was a socialist, as that's clearly not so.

You make quite a few assumptions about what I don't know, but they are false ones.

Also, being attacked as "a socialist" by right-wing extremists does not ipso facto, make one a socialist. If we allow such nonsense, then fascists and the hard-right get to (falsely) frame the political debate, and that would be a massive mistake.

I graduated from the political science program at UC Berkeley, which at the time--and since--is held in faily high regard. Not a bastion of conservatism.

Since you have an education in such matters, which socialist state--now or in the past 100 years or so--whould you point to as a positive model for constructing a free and just society?