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imanamerican63

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2. If you really think about it?

Reply to HughBeaumont (Original post)

Sat Feb 20, 2016, 08:19 AM

Feb 2016

Everyone is a socialist. Dems try to help the less fortunate and the Repubs want to take from the less fortunate and make them richer. That is a socialistic divide. It would explain why the Repubs are always mad when we stand up to them in a conversation about social issues.

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"Democratic Socialism" does NOT mean "Ceaușescu's Romania" or "Brezhnev's U.S.S.R.". [View all] HughBeaumont Feb 2016 OP

Kick warrprayer Feb 2016 #1

If you really think about it? imanamerican63 Feb 2016 #2

Well it does on Free Republic or to Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh or to your basic rightwinger. Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 #3

Propaganda works n2doc Feb 2016 #4

"Too Big A Tent." HughBeaumont Feb 2016 #9

it does to a whole lot of American voters hfojvt Feb 2016 #10

Yes I realize that 40-50% of the voters are rightwing. Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 #11

More like Attlee's UK which is fine with me. craigmatic Feb 2016 #5

It means "America in the 1960s" phantom power Feb 2016 #6

It's something even more radical called "The New Deal" n/t DefenseLawyer Feb 2016 #7

K&R nt raouldukelives Feb 2016 #8