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In reply to the discussion: I'm a nurse and I've possibly been exposed to Ebola and I think I maybe should be quarantined [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)would be direct and without reversals and counter-revolutionary victories. (See the People's Republic of China and the former USSR for examples.)
I do agree that it's unlikely America will transition to socialism within our lifetimes. I do think the power to redbait Socialists and socialism has diminished somewhat, as evidence by Sanders' and Warren's popularity in the polls. (Neither one is, properly speaking, a 'Socialist' but even so they'd be targets of red-baiting were the red-baiters to start foaming at the mouth.)
I can forsee -- maybe not in my lifetime -- a candidate or party running on a platform or proposal to make all healthcare workers government employees, and all healthcare facilities government property, to be paid for out of general (tax) revenues and answerable not to shareholders but to the democratic process. That may seem like a pipe dream right now, but the fact that I and you can envision it means it's not completely outside the realm of possibility.