Thursday, August 20, 2015

Are Democrats Really Socialists? - Reason.com

Are Democrats Really Socialists? - Reason.com:
"Socialism has had a rough few decades, but it's enjoying a rare success.
Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a socialist, is running for president, drawing big crowds and leading Hillary Clinton in one poll in New Hampshire.
All this leads some people to a damning conclusion: Democrats love Sanders because Democrats are socialists. 
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has encouraged this claim by declining to spell out the differences between a Democrat and a socialist.
"These days, it's largely a distinction without a difference," Jason Riley, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, wrote in The Wall Street Journal. Ted Cruz asserts that Clinton "is just as much of a socialist as Bernie Sanders." "

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