Anybody Else Bothered That These Radical Marxists Are Marketing Themselves As"Socialists?"

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One of the few things Dems are good at is branding themselves with words which don't accurately describe who they are.

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Easy to do when virtually every institution carries their water.

It turns out the standard GOP practice of the last 30 years of shrugging shoulders and saying but look at the GDP has consequences.

Excellent post, donut. I wish more people were pointing this out, especially less than 2 months away from voting in the midterm elections.

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Anybody Else Bothered That These Radical Marxists Are Marketing Themselves As"Socialists?"

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Not really. I'm worried that people are willing to accept them no matter what they are called.

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I don’t care if people have these views… 

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I agree. They can have their crazy views. The problem is, we're talking about extremists who are either 1) running for office, or 2) already holding power, like Mamdani.

That's why we shouldn't allow them to get away with misbranding themselves. There are too many gullible, under-informed voters who could be fooled.

Socialism and communism are interchangeable terms.

I know technically the definition is different, but the end result is always the same

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Anybody Else Bothered That These Radical Marxists Are Marketing Themselves As"Socialists?"

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Not really. This is what they've always done. I have always stated that socialists and communists are the same. I'm glad they're now making that more obvious.

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Anybody Else Bothered That These Radical Marxists Are Marketing Themselves As"Socialists?"

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No. Marxism is just a more specific node within the broader scope of Socialism. As such, all Marxists are socialists while not all socialists are Marxists. Along with that, for the Marxist, socialism is merely a step toward their reality-denying dream of a global stateless, classless, communist society.

Anyone paying attention knows that when socialism fails, the socialist seeks to just push more government control in order to force socialism to work. For the Marxist, this plays in their dream because it requires an eventual revolution and nothing sparks revolution quite like an increasingly authoritative government causing the citizenry to go from wealth to starvation.

This means that for the wise, "socialist", "communist" and "Marxist" are just increasingly potent versions of the same drink with the only real option being to not belly-up to the bar in the first place.

I’ve had multiple leftist white women tell me that “socialism is NOT communism” over the past several weeks. I just ask whether they personally are willing to pay 50+% of their own income in taxes and then the argument loses steam.

I can blame the DSAs. I can blame the msm as willing accomplices and supporters of all things anti-American.
But to me, the blame falls to a particular unnamed, unfinished 'gene' within the leftist voters' minds that can't seem to distinguish between political reality and political fantasy - that can't seem to engage a critical gear that would even question what is presented to them by their demigods. I wonder too whether their political instincts exist or have they chosen to ignore them. The corruption within the D party is now an open book. That socialism and its poisonous cousins have historically ruined nations is beyond dispute. That leftists continue to embrace it is nothing less than an indication of weak or fractured minds.
Hollering at the DSAs wont fix it.