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In reply to the discussion: Why I'm not a Socialist [View all]

LiberalLovinLug

(14,169 posts)
2. He is technically right
Thu Jul 19, 2018, 02:25 PM
Jul 2018

And Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are not true Socialists either.

But its all just semantics right now. Democratic Socialist, or Social Democrat. I do think that the latter term is one that SHOULD have been adopted by more progressive Democrats, but either way, it amounts to the same thing, if only because it is misunderstood as being the same thing. So I think it is pointless and distracting to parse this so minutely. Believe me no Republican pundit is going to care whether it is called DS or SD. And the MSM are clueless and almost as frightened about saying the word "socialist" as the Democrats.

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