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Celerity

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17. 'blah blah blah' as response is a fail. Please answer my simple question: Do you believe the state
Fri Feb 14, 2020, 06:32 PM
Feb 2020

should control the means of production?


I just completely rebutted your attempt to falsely try and conflate FDR with socialism, as well, so whilst indeed concise, your reply was also faulty and flawed.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
Sounds like Bernie Sanders is not your preferred candidate for the nomination. DanTex Feb 2020 #1
Being a go along get along candidate will end the Democratic party. brutus smith Feb 2020 #2
Absolutely Lunabell Feb 2020 #4
We can't let democracy mzmolly Feb 2020 #51
I am a Democrat and a Democratic socialist. Lunabell Feb 2020 #3
+1000 brutus smith Feb 2020 #11
So you believe the state should own and control the means of production? Celerity Feb 2020 #12
Blah, blah, blah Lunabell Feb 2020 #15
'blah blah blah' as response is a fail. Please answer my simple question: Do you believe the state Celerity Feb 2020 #17
Great post. Thank you. n/t Laelth Feb 2020 #21
thank you so much Celerity Feb 2020 #23
Butting in, sorry... PETRUS Feb 2020 #24
You get a heart for that... Dennis Donovan Feb 2020 #27
Thanks, man! PETRUS Feb 2020 #31
Well, Bernie should have followed Norman Thomas' maxim Celerity Feb 2020 #36
As a tactical suggestion, you could be right. PETRUS Feb 2020 #39
yw! nice chatting Celerity Feb 2020 #43
You bet. Just finished the Verso article. Rather interesting. nt PETRUS Feb 2020 #44
I just joined to let you know how much I enjoyed this post Sympthsical Feb 2020 #25
welcome to DU and thank you so much for the kind words! Celerity Feb 2020 #38
But of course you'll enthusiastically support Bloomberg if he gets the nod, right? marble falls Feb 2020 #45
Without the slightest hesitation. Sympthsical Feb 2020 #46
Poly-sci? ChubbyStar Feb 2020 #47
Writing posts on a phone is a treacherous endeavor Sympthsical Feb 2020 #52
+1000 Fresh_Start Feb 2020 #29
Many of Bernie's ideas are great, but his packaging and the cadre with which he surrounds himself Celerity Feb 2020 #42
He wastes his time and his supporters time trying to redefine Fresh_Start Feb 2020 #49
Well said Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #63
+ 1000 nt Quixote1818 Feb 2020 #50
Hear hear!! Doremus Feb 2020 #57
Americans really need to get over their fear of social democracy. Gravitycollapse Feb 2020 #5
And might even be center MoonlitKnight Feb 2020 #7
Hell, I know people who think Sanders is centrist. Gravitycollapse Feb 2020 #9
so why does Bernie falsely self-label as a democratic socialist? He is simply a social democrat, and Celerity Feb 2020 #18
He's probably philosophically DS but pragmatically SD Gravitycollapse Feb 2020 #19
If he was pragmatic, he would never self-label as a dem soc. Furthermore, IF he actually is Celerity Feb 2020 #20
We will have to agree to disagree on that. Gravitycollapse Feb 2020 #35
he couldn't even if he wanted to, lolol Celerity Feb 2020 #37
They won't get over it by November. nt gollygee Feb 2020 #55
Is there a social democrat running? brooklynite Feb 2020 #59
That WILL NOT HAPPEN in 2020 Zolorp Feb 2020 #66
i certainly appreciate your 30 years on working on campaigns but those metrics no longer apply Kurt V. Feb 2020 #6
Well lots of well known people have been Democratic Socialists that are respected in the Democratic Nanjeanne Feb 2020 #8
No One On Your List Horizens Feb 2020 #53
... Cha Feb 2020 #10
There is a 5 month age gap between Bloom and Bernie ChubbyStar Feb 2020 #13
Bloomberg hasn't had a recent heart attack Zolorp Feb 2020 #67
So you don't believe in social security? Medicare? Medicaid? Labor Unions? Scotch-Irish Feb 2020 #14
no, they are not. They are democratic policies enacted by democrats. Fresh_Start Feb 2020 #32
Don't forget Meyer London Donkees Feb 2020 #64
I am in total agreement. Desert grandma Feb 2020 #16
+1 TheCowsCameHome Feb 2020 #22
Biden, Bloomberg, Sanders....All nearing 80 apcalc Feb 2020 #26
Ron Dellums was a DSA vice chair. David__77 Feb 2020 #28
Semantics colsohlibgal Feb 2020 #30
Bernie and his "Bernie or Bust" supporters will have been responsible for redraider1974 Feb 2020 #33
You tell me, why...after many years in the Senate, would one apcalc Feb 2020 #40
More Bernie voters voted for HRC Doremus Feb 2020 #58
I'm a FDR Democrat. William769 Feb 2020 #34
Socialism Smackdown2019 Feb 2020 #41
I could work with that. It's the slander, attacks, and damage they do to the party that I detest. Amimnoch Feb 2020 #48
I believe it is a hill we cannot overcome in the General Election Ferrets are Cool Feb 2020 #54
I'll never support a Socialist or anyone who wants to hijack our party. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #56
The party you are speaking of was hijacked years ago by corporatists. Lunabell Feb 2020 #60
Haaaaaa! NurseJackie Feb 2020 #61
You had to hold your nose in '16? MrsCoffee Feb 2020 #65
Nobody is a Democratic Socialism. It's an oxymoron. robbedvoter Feb 2020 #62
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