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redstateblues

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28. All the explaining in the world is not going to make "socialism" an election winner in 2020

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Fri Jun 14, 2019, 12:05 AM

Jun 2019

USSR. Union of Soviet Sociaist Republics is what springs to the mind when you say “socialism”

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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We're All 'Socialists' Now [View all] Uncle Joe Jun 2019 OP

No, we are not. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #1

Sorry HerbChestnut Jun 2019 #2

Public funding of something isn't socialism either. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #4

That's fair, the dictionaries agree. HerbChestnut Jun 2019 #7

No, people have not! The right who hates these programs have done so!! GulfCoast66 Jun 2019 #21

Except none of our candidates are proposing the state ownership of industries. HerbChestnut Jun 2019 #26

Yep. Not being a sociopath is socialism in today's America ck4829 Jun 2019 #25

if you use a public roads, public schools, police, fire, if you are protected by the military, yaesu Jun 2019 #3

Nope, see above. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2019 #5

I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong. nt yaesu Jun 2019 #8

I am not a socialist. emmaverybo Jun 2019 #31

It is not good enough for somebody to say, 'I'm a socialist, vote for me.' comradebillyboy Jun 2019 #6

Who you callin' soshialist? Them's fightin' words Joe. LOL/S appalachiablue Jun 2019 #9

... Uncle Joe Jun 2019 #10

The brave Thracian gladiator. I met him once- Kirk, at a movie appalachiablue Jun 2019 #13

No kidding. Uncle Joe Jun 2019 #14

Meeting EW, Bruce & Bailey would be terrific. appalachiablue Jun 2019 #18

Haha ck4829 Jun 2019 #24

I'm not. George II Jun 2019 #11

When a profit motive is introduced rownesheck Jun 2019 #12

I would include prisons as an industry that should not have a profit motive attached. aidbo Jun 2019 #20

6th OP on the same old speech LibFarmer Jun 2019 #15

"by coopting the right's expansive definition of "socialism" TwilightZone Jun 2019 #16

Yes we are, according to the convoluted definition provided by the right wing. OilemFirchen Jun 2019 #17

I don't get it. betsuni Jun 2019 #29

LOL! No, we're not. highplainsdem Jun 2019 #19

Nope, not me leftofcool Jun 2019 #22

K&R ck4829 Jun 2019 #23

The country is more like an oligarchy. trev Jun 2019 #27

All the explaining in the world is not going to make "socialism" an election winner in 2020 redstateblues Jun 2019 #28

Must mean our first Universal Income checks are in the mail. democratisphere Jun 2019 #30

Not a socialist; however, with the mess that unregulated capitalism Backseat Driver Jun 2019 #32

To me, being labeled a socialist.... quickesst Jun 2019 #33