03-26-2019, 11:19 AM
(03-26-2019, 10:45 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I get what you're saying, it's perpetuating a belief that liberal must mean socialism, but when you have candidates declaring themselves "democratic socialists", I think it's fair to begin to the use the word in very specific context as Yahoo! did, though I think "populist" would have been a better label, especially since they describe Trump's protectionism as one of the examples.
What would be great would be for people to actually have an understanding of what democratic socialism is, and for people that claim to be one to stop calling themselves that because most aren't. But anyway...
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
