(April 4, 2016 at 2:33 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: We are already a democratic socialist country. Students already get Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), Social Security exists, so does Medicare/Medicaid. Our infrastructure and military are examples of democratic socialism at work.
No, you're not. You're pretty far removed from democratic socialism. You're even far removed from European conservative systems. universal healthcare isn't up for debate here, just to give one example. And pointing at infrastructure or the military, I can only take as being ironic. I don't know if you've been abroad, but power lines running above grid, so that every storm can hit them at it's leisure, is a thing of the past in many European countries.
What is true, your population, going by polls on social issues, would like some kind of democratic socialism. In it's majority. Even the rednecks cheering Trump on.