Today I saw a socialist city council member attacked from the left.

[eridani]

11. These days people think that "socialism" is a generic euphemism for "public goods"

After all, Repukes have been demonizing all public goods as "socialism" for the last 40 years, no one listens to actual socialists when they say otherwise, and Democrats don't do much but occasionally mumble that public goods aren't really what is traditionally meant by socialism.

Which is why millenials favor socialism narrowly over capitalism--they've been totally fucked economically and could use some public goods. If public goods are socialism, then they'd like a big heaping plateful of that good stuff.

Yes, Sawant essentially ran on the WA State Democratic Party Platform, which is why Democrats and quite a few alienated genereric lefties supported her.