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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Look at the track record of nationalized industries. It's not good.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days 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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