Socialist Progressives

Warpy

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6. Some years ago, there was a comprehensive political test online, now sadly gone.

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 06:58 PM

Oct 2015

I had a lot of my online friends and acquaintances take it and they were all shocked to find out they weren't mushy middle moderates, they were all socialists when it came to the issues. That means people in both parties, there were a few sensible, thoughtful Republicans around back then.

The demonization of the word "socialist" is a leftover from McCarthyism and good, old fashioned corporate red baiting. Sanders is redefining it for all the kids who had that third grade propaganda dinned into their impressionable little heads in grade school and changing a lot of minds in both parties.

This is the genius of Sanders's campaign, IMO. He's waking a lot of sleepwalkers up. It's overdue.

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A Progressive or a Radical? [View all] TBF Oct 2015 OP

I get why many want to distance themselves from this movement. F4lconF16 Oct 2015 #1

Some years ago, there was a comprehensive political test online, now sadly gone. Warpy Oct 2015 #6

Eh, maybe we can find another word for leftists, then. F4lconF16 Oct 2015 #8

"free public higher education is a radical"? In the '60s most public universities were free cpompilo Oct 2015 #2

Where were public universities free in the 60's? brer cat Oct 2015 #3

try the Google: "list of U.S. tuition-free public universities in the 1960s" cpompilo Oct 2015 #4

That didn't produce much. brer cat Oct 2015 #5

They were in CA. In the rest of the country, they were cheap Warpy Oct 2015 #7