So I was watching Andrew Puzder's talk on C-Span2 and came away very impressed with the guy. Too bad he didn't get to serve on Trump's cabinet.
One interesting thing he talked about was the difference between socialism and democratic socialism. He said that according to Bernie Sanders, under socialism the government owned businesses, whereas democratic socialism allowed the original owners to keep their businesses, but the government would runs them. Actually, that sounds more like the difference between communism and socialism.
Here's a distinction found at a website sympathetic to socialism -- either flavor. Difference between Socialism and Democratic Socialism. Socialism is defined as businesses owned by the "collective" -- code word for government. But the democratic socialism would be something the citizens had voted for rather than having been forced onto the citizens. The idea that it would have been forced onto business owners doesn't factor into that distinction.
In any event, to those of us who oppose Socialism by any definition, the distinction isn't particularly meaningful.
And finally, here's a dirty little secret worth worrying about. Malcolm Nance is firmly in the resist-Trump camp, but put that aside for a second. He makes a persuasive argument that Vladimir Putin's ultimate goal is to convince enough westerners to vote out their own democracy. Appears as though he's made some significant advances on that goal.
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9:12 AM 8/12/2018
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