Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I wonder if President Obama is changing his calculation. [View all]GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I havent. If nothing else, the guy is brutally honest in his politics. I generally believe it when people tell you what they are. He is way more versed in socialist ideology than me yet still calls himself a Democratic Socialist. I believe him.
So he does not openly espouse them. I think the biggest mistake the other candidates have made in the debates is they never asked him. I honestly believe he would either admit to it or at least go mealy mouthed.
Our mistake is assuming he is a contrarian Democrat. Ill believe to my dying day that in the first debate had Hillary ask him as a Democratic Socialist does he support the DSA platform where eventually the state owns the means of production he would have either admitted it or danced around the issue. Its who he is.
He knows what a Democratic Socialist is. Better than I do. And still claims to be one. I respect the guy enough to believe him.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden