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(54,212 posts)Repug funding cuts on education have stopped millions of voters from understanding that socialism isn't the democratic socialism of the nordic countries rather than the textbook definition that most equate it withthe means of production and distribution owned by the people.
In other words, welfarism, which is how the repugs are depicting it. Hard to overcome decades of such indoctrination in a short time. And many of the deplorables don't know the difference between fascism and socialismremember the Palin crowds calling Obama a fascist socialist?
Most see us as a capitalist country, despite the fact that some of us know that there are many socialist aspects to our capitalism.
It's only 52 days to the election. We are ahead. No need to endanger that when we are so close by embracing a narrative that millions of voters still see as an anti-capitalist bogeyman.
Much more education needed to be done on that for us to risk that embrace with our democracy teetering in the balance against fascists just two months away in the election that will either doom or save it.