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cilla4progress

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34. Socialism...Harry Truman.

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Tue Feb 18, 2020, 12:12 AM

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Bernie is a [View all] cilla4progress Feb 2020 OP

By the time November rolls around, a majority of voters will believe he is CalFione Feb 2020 #1

Thank you, Cal. cilla4progress Feb 2020 #2

I want to win in November. I don't care who. CalFione Feb 2020 #3

You think there's any chance of cilla4progress Feb 2020 #4

Bernie has already said that his VP choice will be someone who shares his ideological vision CalFione Feb 2020 #5

Yea Watchfoxheadexplodes Feb 2020 #8

No he'll choose Tulsi...she'll help peel some deplorable votes because they are hot for her. UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #33

Actually Social Democracy is the accurate term for the Scandinavian countries Fiendish Thingy Feb 2020 #6

Look it up? denem Feb 2020 #11

From the Wikipedia page on Democratic Socialism: Fiendish Thingy Feb 2020 #24

Bailing out banks is socialism. Buzz cook Feb 2020 #7

Yes, yes, and yes!!! floppyboo Feb 2020 #20

Yes. TDale313 Feb 2020 #26

The Nordic countries are not socialist, which they have made very clear. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2020 #9

I wish someone would ask Sanders that directly so he could clear things up Quixote1818 Feb 2020 #16

Indeed. defacto7 Feb 2020 #28

Right - so, really, cilla4progress Feb 2020 #10

Bernie is our future. Feel the BERN! Love-All Feb 2020 #12

God, I hope not. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2020 #13

If he is our future, murielm99 Feb 2020 #15

I had this same argument earlier today. LakeArenal Feb 2020 #17

Look at all the posts in this thread trying to explain murielm99 Feb 2020 #19

If he's our nominee, we will support him. Laelth Feb 2020 #14

Go ahead and explain that to an electorate whose chief concern in life is the Masked Singer HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #18

+100000000000000000000000000000000000 nt UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #31

divisive figure. Squinch Feb 2020 #21

I don't care about the qualifier. David__77 Feb 2020 #22

The Nordic model is Social Democracy. Read up on both, they Blue_true Feb 2020 #23

Thanks for the definition. cilla4progress Feb 2020 #25

I missed your answer but you exactly correct andym Feb 2020 #37

Good luck explaining that to voters in October. RandySF Feb 2020 #27

Perhaps, but before that he called himself just a plain "socialist" for decades. brush Feb 2020 #29

Nordic countries are socialist democracies nt delisen Feb 2020 #30

LOL Deero Feb 2020 #32

Socialism...Harry Truman. cilla4progress Feb 2020 #34

Nordic model is social Democrats, completely different from what Sanders espouses. Zolorp Feb 2020 #35

The Nordic model is "social democracy" not "democratic socialism" andym Feb 2020 #36

Bots? cilla4progress Feb 2020 #38

... cilla4progress Feb 2020 #39