2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If the Democratic Party continues to go [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Read here...
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/americans-want-to-live-in-a-much-more-equal-country-they-just-dont-realize-it/260639/
Compare what people think our country's breakdown is, what it really is and what is ideal.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140922122811-90103575-wealth-inequality-differs-from-income-inequality
Note how most people's ideal is closer to what Sweden has than what we have now. Whether we realize it or not, we WANT the socialist system they have giving the economic mix they have, not the divided SHIT that people are sick of now! If we weren't sick of it, WHY were there so many Occupy movement protests out earlier.
Saying Bernie is bad because you feel that "socialist" is a bad label is borrowing a page out of Rush Limbaugh's book in calling "liberals" bad and using the term "liberal" as a pejorative in the same way, even though I'm proud of being a liberal in what it really means in depth and not just used as a four letter word that the right likes to use the term that you feel most Americans are.
It's like also the way the Turd Way is using the term "progressive" to describe their more conservative organizations pushing things like the TPP, to get false name associations and connotations being associated with that term too.
Sorry, but any economist would tell you that social security is far more of a SOCIALIST policy than it is "reformed capitalism" (whatever the hell that means!).
If you think socialism is so bad and can't be used to describe institutions like social security and other public goods we have, why don't you provide a better definition than just "bad" to describe what you think "socialism" really means. That would be interesting to see what you manufacture there.