(September 2, 2022 at 5:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(September 2, 2022 at 4:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Democrats don’t need to reject socialism - they just need to package it better.
Boru
Yes and no.
Yes in that the connotation of Soviet oppressive or Cuba's Castro stigma is still attached to the word "Socialist" to the MAGA right. We need to ditch that bullshit cold war slur, and stop letting the right attach that to us.
No in that we do need stronger social safety nets like making sure social security and Medicare stay solvent and don't get raided for corporate tax breaks billionaires don't need. Ending for profit hospitals, and getting rid of that dodge of calling them "non-profit" when they are still run by for profit management. And cheaper higher education, free meals in every public school all the way through highschool. Lots of social safety nets like FDR's new deal that created a more stable society, one that Reagan started the decline of.
There is no ‘no’. The things you listed are social programmes, they just need to be presented in a manner that doesn’t trigger the buzz word ‘socialism’
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
