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why are they undocumented and living here so long?You either believe in building Trump’s “Great Wall”, believe in separating children from their parents at the U.S. border, believe in removing undocumented immigrants from the country who have lived here for decades and contributed to their community, or you believe in “open borders." It’s a blunt rhetorical trick. It’s crass. But it works. So it’s employed by everyone from the current president down to the many supporters and trolls who carry his water on social media.Well let’s be fair, your offering what you found in a poll of 1000 people based on a general question... I have a pretty wide circle of friends. I live in Cali and Austin tx for parts of the year. Most my friends are pretty liberal. I can only think of only 1 person that supports open boarders and he’s a pretty whacky anarchist... and I can’t think of one person I know that supports full blown socialism. How many of your democratic friends support full socialism?Again slade, I am not offering what I feel, think or what happens when I talk with my circle of friends. I am offering you what democrats themselves say in an objective and factual format.I don’t get that from the people I listen to on the Left. I don’t hear Biden talking about that or Delaney or Ryan or Klobachar.... year Sanders and OAC and other wingnuts are pushing for that stuff. I don’t support them nor do I think they represent most people on the left. People hear socialism and think Iceland and Denmark and Medicare and social security so they say they support it. Ask them if they want Venezuela and gov takeover of all industry and they'll say hell no... at least that’s my hopeYes. Did you?Did you see what question they were asked? Cause Medicare and Social Security are forms of socialism and most people support those... but that’s very different than Venezuela or Nazi Germany. I don't think the majority of Dems want the gov to take over the means and control of all industries. Not even close
There is noting in there about social security or anything else. The question was pretty straight forward: Just off the top of your head, would you say you have a positive or negative image of each of the following. How about ....
You may want to banter about definition but your claim was very straight forward:
vast majority of dems don’t support socialism
And there is no way around it Slade - that is factually and objectively false. The MAJORITY of dems, objectively, support socialism.
And they are talking about taking over and controlling industries. At the moment, they want government to take over the healthcare and higher education markets. It is getting damn close in the IT market from BOTH sides (why I can never be a republican). They have openly bantered about it in the oil markets before. Sanders is a MAJOR contender in this election and was in the last as well and to say he is not a socialist is just ignoring what sanders has been pushing for nigh on 30 years. You know, the rich guy that said it was immoral to be rich - that guy.
There is a significant portion of the democrat party that is hardcore socialist. This primary we will get to see if they really are in the drivers seat.
I know, you don't WANT to admit that a large portion of a major political party has lost their damn minds. Unfortunately they have. Now...
Now for my opinion on the lame defense of the left that has lost their minds:
'Democratic Socialism' is utter bullshit as well. There is no difference between this claptrap and 'Nationalists' telling us they really are not Nazis and are pushing white pride. Peterson has it right here, the problem is that we have no objective measure for when the left goes to far. It is painfully obvious on the right - you have gone to far when you start to talk about purity in any of its forms. With the left I think that line is damn clear as well, equality of outcome, but people have not woken up to the pure evil that is. Democratic socialism is a re-branding of the basis of socialism and most of the people shouting it have no idea what they actually are supporting it. They will support it all the way off the cliff though - the failure of the right to deal with its insanity should provide all the hard proof that you need.
The vast majority of Americans, including most Democrats don’t believe in so-called “open borders.” That’s not to say that no one believes in open borders. Certainly, there are people who do. But most don’t. And open borders is not a policy the Democratic party supports; it’s not part of their platform, and no democratic presidential candidate supports it. Regardless of how many times Trump and his supporters may claim otherwise.
and right now the left believes in stopping trump, whatever is goal is. if his goal was to end cancer then they'd rail on trump for that. we've gone that far off the rails. both sides stop being so god damn stubborn and attack the issues, not each other.