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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher Nails it! [View all]brush
(53,981 posts)27. All that is true. No disagreement here, but IMO let's wait until we get in power...
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and can actually implement policies that help the commonweal.
We're 52 days from the election. Let's not give the repugs any ammo for them to throw up ads calling us socialists and reds and communists.
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Of course they are! Why run scared...did we learn nothing from running away from "liberalism"?
Fred Sanders
Sep 2018
#5
We will agree to disagree..."crickets" on the mass propaganda, as Maher says, is foolish.
Fred Sanders
Sep 2018
#8
Not so fast. Even the Nordic model is not socialism. It's highly taxed capitalism...
brush
Sep 2018
#24
All that is true. No disagreement here, but IMO let's wait until we get in power...
brush
Sep 2018
#27
We need to confront their charge of socialism by pointing out that all around us socialism
Blue_true
Sep 2018
#28
I don't agree with your points, but I agree to disagree and leave things at that.
Blue_true
Sep 2018
#37
That's fair. As a matter of fact most calling themselves socialists are following the Nordic...
brush
Sep 2018
#32
Excellent points, I'd offer Avenatti as a counter example, just for recent comparison. N/t
Brogrizzly
Sep 2018
#15
It's not just a liberal issue, obviously manufactured consent is driven more so on the right.
Brogrizzly
Sep 2018
#19