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In reply to the discussion: What is a Democratic Socialist? [View all]HassleCat
(6,409 posts)I have been a democratic socialist for many years, and that seems to be a good description. Some of the things I favor that the mainstream Democratic Party has ignored or forgotten: promoting workers control and ownership of businesses, eliminating sales taxes and other regressive taxes that shift the tax burden onto the working class and middle class, using protectionist trade regulations to protect US workers from dumping and other market manipulations by foreign governments, using the power of the government to protect consumers against fraud and faulty products, restricting financial instruments to prevent things such as bundling bad mortgages and selling derivatives based on them, restricting the amount of money spent on political campaigns, and so on.