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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Everyone now is more or less a Socialist" [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)68. Who cares about Norway or Sweden. They don't get a vote here. I'm ignoring your
superiority and awesome depth of knowledge. Simply ask anyone which word (noun) is preferred...socialist or democrat. It's in almost every news report...people are not comfortable with the label of socialist. They think of all the negative crap since McCarthy. Some think it's a synonym of communism.
I am a Bernie supporter and have been since he entered the race way back when. He's had to introduce himself to 300,000,000 million people...and is still doing so. I just think...and I'll say it yet again...that it's been made more difficult with the label of Socialist...regardless of the adjective.
Peace.
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As a Sanders Supporter, I agree. Socialist Democrats would be more acceptable. I think it
libdem4life
Dec 2015
#3
Linguistics is culture...a noun is different than an adjective used to delineate a noun. We start
libdem4life
Dec 2015
#7
Who cares about Norway or Sweden. They don't get a vote here. I'm ignoring your
libdem4life
Dec 2015
#68
What is fascinating, if you'll look back, I agreed with you. From there on it was parsing
libdem4life
Dec 2015
#78
There are more tendencies within socialist philosophies than just Marxism.
Fantastic Anarchist
Dec 2015
#30
You are fighting a losing battle here, Babel. DU'ers who support HRC have nothing to add to the
mother earth
Dec 2015
#80