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Interesting column from Kerr. Was Ruy not available? (He is, of course, quoted.) It seems to me that to adopt the view that Dems must bash "socialism" like the GOP tacitly acknowledges that American voters are stupid, because they are against something they can't even define. Maybe the way Dems should frame it is "we are against the ownership by the state of the means of production."

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The Dems should just say they are against socialism and for Social Security, Medicare, the ACA. Which is the truth.

In the Preamble to the Constitution the founding fathers specifically cited that one of its goals was to "promote the general welfare" which is what those things do.

That's not socialism.

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