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The word socialism has lost the sting. Considering one of the top presidential candidates has been running in the platform for decades. And the DSA has made lar
by yardie 7y ago
The word socialism has lost the sting. Considering one of the top presidential candidates has been running in the platform for decades. And the DSA has made large gains in liberal cities.
Simply calling something socialism isn’t the scarlet letter it used to be.
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- egypturnash 7y agoThe more that capitalist greedheads label anything that involves being nice to people instead of seeing them as perfect libertarian spheres who act only in their own absolutely rational financial self interests as “socialism”, the more people who give even half a shit about their fellow humans start to think “socialism” must be pretty good.
- ianai 7y agoYou would think, but not quite. Blows my mind how many of those same people are living off of or approve of social security just in my own social circles.
- _iyig 7y agoI don't know why you've been downvoted. I've also watched this change unfold in big cities on the East and West Coast, most strongly among younger voters, since Bernie's candidacy in the 2016 election.
- ianai 7y agoYep it’s frustrating to be downvoted for simply pointing out the political elephant in the room.