Imagine how voters who aren't into politics will feel about it. (Reply #30)

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Mon Feb 24, 2020, 09:42 PM

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30. Imagine how voters who aren't into politics will feel about it.

Their eyes will glaze over as we tell them about the very important distinction between socialist and Democratic socialist. Then the republicans will blanket them with the video of Bernie saying, "I am a socialist."

It's gonna be GrEaT.

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40 replies	Author	Time	Post
God, I am so tired of the confusion/discussion/obfuscation/ignorance about "socialism". [View all]	ProfessorPlum	Feb 2020	OP
Well said. Bernie, Elizabeth and the rest are running on	PatrickforO	Feb 2020	#1
Bernie should launch a campaign to educate the masses on proper terminology and usage	dalton99a	Feb 2020	#2
I think that is a great idea	ProfessorPlum	Feb 2020	#3
and	handmade34	Feb 2020	#36
One problem that Sanders has not been able to do so	delisen	Feb 2020	#8
If we have to keep explaining it to people,	murielm99	Feb 2020	#4
Maybe it would be easier if the largest democratic socialist organization in the US would go away?	Sancho	Feb 2020	#5
Here's a very simple definition of democratic socialism that I recently read:	Tracer	Feb 2020	#6
I like it!	ProfessorPlum	Feb 2020	#11
and	handmade34	Feb 2020	#38
We are currently heading to an almost feudal system,	5X	Feb 2020	#7
me too	ProfessorPlum	Feb 2020	#12
Thank you. Need this	Arazi	Feb 2020	#9
Do you really think the huge number of low info voters	Alliepoo	Feb 2020	#10
no, I don't think they know the difference	ProfessorPlum	Feb 2020	#13
I fear you're wasting your time, when Bernie praises Fidel Castro and Soviet subways it just ...	Baclava	Feb 2020	#14
when he praises soviet subways and then condemns soviet human rights violations	ProfessorPlum	Feb 2020	#15
I honestly don't think it's going to get beyond that word-	Alliepoo	Feb 2020	#16
Great post	malaise	Feb 2020	#17
You think you're sick of it now....	Happy Hoosier	Feb 2020	#18
People are afraid of taxes I think	ismnotwasm	Feb 2020	#19
The GOP attacked FDR and the New Deal we 'socialism'. They attacked LBJ and Medicare	pampango	Feb 2020	#20
Better have a cocktail, it's going to get 1000 times worse. nt	cry baby	Feb 2020	#21
You are so right...	VarryOn	Feb 2020	#34
The various interpretations are as silly...	LanternWaste	Feb 2020	#22
eat this with your smug condescension	ProfessorPlum	Feb 2020	#25
not nice... n/t	handmade34	Feb 2020	#39
Recommended.	H2O Man	Feb 2020	#23
Stand by. You ain't seen nuthin' yet.	NurseJackie	Feb 2020	#24
me to	evertonfc	Feb 2020	#26
Paul Krugman wrote today : Sanders is not a Socialist nt	Fiendish Thingy	Feb 2020	#27
We need Bernie to say it. nt	pnwmom	Feb 2020	#29
So why does Bernie insist on sticking with the brand, when he knows he doesn't accept	pnwmom	Feb 2020	#28
Imagine how voters who aren't into politics will feel about it.	Squinch	Feb 2020	#30
Socialism is whatever the people controlling the narrative say it is.	Thomas Hurt	Feb 2020	#31
So you're tired.	Loki Liesmith	Feb 2020	#32
Cool can I use this to update wiki	MyNameGoesHere	Feb 2020	#33
Socialists have been involved in a lot of great things in this country. Farmers being able to	brewens	Feb 2020	#35
Outside of Sanders, AOC and their friends, who else uses the second definition?	brooklynite	Feb 2020	#37
Locking	JudyM	Feb 2020	#40

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