(February 18, 2019 at 7:32 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: There's a massive difference between the way you want or think something should be done, and the only way to do it. Rs are going to call Ds socialists regardless of what they do or how they do it. Ultimately, meeting those goals is the more pressing concern.
We've had four different opportunities for people who have made that claim to chime in and show what it is they're referring to. You're reading in what you want to see, and he's repeating what he's heard.
There's nothing whatsoever in the resolution about socialism. If someone is looking for a reason to like it or hate it, that aint it, because it isn't in there.
You acknowledged that it was written to accommodate corporatists and vulnerable Democrats. Despite the careful wording that leaves wiggle room to deny socialism, socialism is pretty evident. So I'm not reading what I want to see into it. I'm just not using the wiggle room like you are.
You're doing exactly what the timid Dems are doing. They are running away from the slightest whiff of socialism, and that means that they are going to help Republicans strip the NGD down to crony crapitalism.
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