Democrats are all upset over Mamdani because he’s a Democratic Socialist? Why? I don’t get it. What’s wrong with being a Democratic Socialist. It seems like a good thing to me. I thought Democrats embraced socialism.

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      6 months ago

      Ah yes, the famous failures of… libraries, fire stations, social security, medicare, USPS, and VA hospitals.

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        6 months ago

        I define democratic socialism to be the policies that democratic socialists would put in place that we don’t already have under systems we’re not currently calling democractic socialism.

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        6 months ago

        The Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force. Coast Guard. Police. Highway construction.