Will AOC and Bernie start their own Socialist Party of the United States?
2021-01-24T17:59:51Z
One can only hope.
2021-01-24T18:20:51Z
@Anon I am a registered independent as well.
2021-01-24T18:22:05Z
@ihavqs2-put on your thinking cap.
2021-01-24T20:15:34Z
Let me clarify, these people call Trump narcissistic, while simultaneously saying saying socialism hasn't succeeded because it had the wrong people running it, in spite of over 100 million people dying in the attempts to make socialism work. If you really think you can make socialism work, then fix Venezuela.
Flora Post2021-01-24T19:35:29Z
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If Democratic Socialism is so popular, then they should start their own party. But in reality it's not, so they won't start their own party as long as they can parasitize the dnc.
And countries that many democratic socialists hold up as examples of democratic socialism, aren't. Most are market economies with extensive welfare sustained by taxes.
In an ignorant country like this where people with no pot to piss in vote for billionaire presidents who don’t give a sh it about them, I’m not sure that kind of a party would be very popular. I would love to be proven wrong about this, but there are a lot of stupid people in this country who seem to think suffering is ‘patriotic’ because they’ve been so successfully brainwashed over the years to believe that. They sign up to be canon fodder for wealthy members of society and corporations that make money off of wars because they’re told that’s the “patriotic” thing to do. We’ve all seen that kind of mentality. And of course, the system is set up so that often poor and uneducated people have no choice but to sign up for the military because that’s the only way they’re going to be able to survive and feed their families and maybe have their education paid for when they get back. If they’re in any shape to study at that point. So the system is set up so they have to play Russian roulette with their lives to get some economic benefits while the rich people who start those wars and benefit the most from them never have to watch their family members die in them or else come home so emotionally and physically crippled that they are a shell of their former selves. But if you want to help people have the kind of lives that are worth living in a country like this you are condemned for being a “socialist”. Go figure.
No, but let's just remember that democratic socialism is working well all over the world, and the people in those countries have a far better lifestyle than we do. So instead of demonizing this ideology, let's look into it and see what we can get out of it.