Expect to see the S-word beaten to a pulp by Election Day 2020

[TexasTowelie]

With plenty of help, Donald Trump is hoping to frame the 2020 election as a choice between “socialism” and four more years of whatever the heck “Trumpism” is.

“Socialist” is a word that has different meanings in different times and places. As he gears up for the next election, Donald Trump has decided to use “socialism/socialist” as a catchall scare term for anything he opposes/anyone who doesn’t support him.

In his State of the Union address, the president spake thus: “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” He gave no details on what that meant.

In gushing the day after the speech, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin upped the ante by suggesting that America, at some unspecified time and manner, had been a socialist country but, as he pledged on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” show: “We’re not going back to socialism. We’re going on an economic plan for America that works.“

Read more: https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2019/02/expect-to-see-the-s-word-beaten-to-a-pulp-by-election-day-2020/

[Mister Ed]

1. Heh. They're gonna wear it out.

Eventually, it won't spook people anymore.

[Cosmocat]

7. Except

It has worked regularly for over a quarter century now.

[ck4829]

9. It's getting crazier though

Things of decency and compassion are becoming "socialism" according to them.

There's got to be a limit.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Bring it!! If the Liar-in-Chief plays with fire, he's gonna get Berned!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[RDANGELO]

3. One way to combat this would be simmilar to Kennedy's if that makes me a liberal speech.

I believe that all Americans should have access to affordable health care; if that makes me a socialist, then I am socialist.

I believe in preserving Medicare and Social Security; if that makes me a socialist, then I am a socialist.

I believe that any American who works 40 hrs a week should make enough to support their families; if that makes me a socialist, then I am a socialist.

[pansypoo53219]

4. fine, at least we ain't the commies THEY ARE.

[duforsure]

5. Coming from fascists

Their attacking us with name calling will not work anymore. Trump and the republican party are liars, are corrupt criminals, and are fascists trying to push putin's agenda here by using things like this to divide us with. The American people know what they are up to , and reject them completely. They didn't learn anything from the Mid Terms.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Beat 'em over the head with a dictionary.

Perhaps we should all carry little pieces of paper in our wallets with this typed on each, to pass out to "them":

Noun

socialism (usually uncountable, plural socialisms)

1. Any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.
or.....1. A system of social and economic equality in which there is no private property.
or.....2. A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.

Can't recall Democrats advocating those ideas.

We've tried raw, unfettered capitalism for a very long time (their way) and it's failed miserably.....

Democratic social market economy, anyone? Sounds far closer to what we advocate.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_market_economy

[YOHABLO]

8. Yeah their economic plan that works: FOR THEM!

[samnsara]

10. we just need not to give them any ammo....

[ck4829]

12. There's a problem with going out of our way into not giving them ammo

John Podesta's emails that said "Mmm... Pizza" and they somehow turned it into a satanic pedophile conspiracy involving pizzerias.

We can avoid their strawman labels any way we please, they will still take our words and actions and force into those same strawman labels.

We'll still be "socialist" no matter how non-socialist we become.

I'm tired of running from them, it's time to fight back.

[crazytown]

11. I am not a Socialist

I am a proud liberal Democrat - Kamala Harris. I’m a capitalist to my bones -Elizabeth Warren.

Sen Sanders has identified as a socialist for many years. For everyone else, it would be painting a target on their back for no reason.

Suppose there is a banking meltdown. Three approaches

1. Reregulate (liberal) 2. Break them up (progressive) 3. Nationalize (socialist)

The Democratic Party is not a socialist party. Never has been. Medicare for all does not mean natationalizing private hospitals like the UK did with the NHS - National Health Service.

[ck4829]

13. You are according to them

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211880317