A Democratic Socialist expert was on Mark Thompson's sirius radio talk show tonight.
He said that Bernie is a Social Democrat as apposed to a Democratic Socialist.
IIRC he said that a Democratic Socialist believes the people should own and control what ever delivers or produces the things people want. Everything like food, shelter, clothing and Health Care is a right and should be provided to everyone.
I agree that everyone should have the basic necessities of life plus health care. I don't agree that the people should own and control the means to provide those things as in no corporations.
I believe it is our government's job to try and make sure everyone has an opportunity to earn those things and there should be a social safety net for those who cannot earn them. This would be jobs and education programs when society or the economy can't provide them but not in place of society and the economy when they can provide them.
Government should regulate so that there isn't the wealth inequity that we have today.
I am not going to list everything government should do. That's not my purpose here.
I believe in our capitalist society even though it is out of control now. It can be fixed and become the ally of the people not their enemy.
I used to belong to the Democratic Socialists of America. As I said in another post I contributed and got the news letter in the mail and it wasn't in a plain brown rapper. I even had a bumper sticker.
Over time I dropped out because of the idea of the people owning the means to provide necessities.
I don't hate wealthy people or Wall Street. I do hate what some rich people like the Koch Bros are trying to do to us. I do hate what Wall Street did to cause the recession that cost people their homes and jobs.
I don't believe in junking the our system and starting over with Democratic Socialism.
I believe we can live decent productive lives under capitalism if we make government do it's job to make it a fair and just system.
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