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In reply to the discussion: "Welcome to Socialism..." (This guy nails it!) [View all]Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)28. We should stop feeding into the meme that socialism is bad
It is ONLY considered a bad word because of repuq's. I refuse to let them control the words I use.
And, I have come to the conclusion, in my mind, that no matter what WE as Democrats say or do, repuq's will never sway from their despicable, evil behaviors.
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We already have some forms of "socialism"...public drinking water" and my running water
Stuart G
Jun 2021
#2
TBH, I don't know more than a couple of people who consider themselves socialist.
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2021
#15
Words like socialism get a lot of shorts in a bunch here in the God Ol' U S of A.
Progressive Jones
Jun 2021
#17
Right. So why brand ourselves with a term that doesn't exactly mean what we intend
pnwmom
Jun 2021
#21
Who is this WE? If I were to believe your post as 100% truth, I would think that
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2021
#22
I disagree. We should stop branding ourselves with a term that doesn't express our real policies
pnwmom
Jun 2021
#30
There you go again with the WE keep branding ourselves with the Socialist term.
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2021
#38
There are a lot of words that have been perverted by the media from what Webster says
DFW
Jun 2021
#33
The word got a bad rap when it was recognized as the policy of Hitler & Mussolini. That's changing
napi21
Jun 2021
#31
As I've heard it and read it, when Hitler and his and his freaks started up their "NAZI" party,
Progressive Jones
Jun 2021
#32
Righteous rant. It's like Putin says, we are just better at hiding who we really have become. It
Pepsidog
Jun 2021
#19
Mr. Field seems to have hit every one of those nails right on the head.
BobTheSubgenius
Jun 2021
#44