Cast Your Vote If You Are Proud To Be a Socialist

[rsmith6621]

Poll question: Cast Your Vote If You Are Proud To Be a Socialist

[KansDem]

1. Hell, I'm proud to be an Old Socialist!

Oh, well...make that "Middle-age Socialist."

[elocs]

2. I was never an old socialist. I can't say I am really any kind of socialist.

Must every person and belief have some kind of identifying label?

[David__77]

3. The Republicans are popularizing the concept of socialism.

That is the interesting thing about this ideological discourse they are attempting. Of course, the Democratic Party is not a socialist party, and I would argue should not be such a party. Rather, pro-socialist forces should work within it along with other progressive forces. The idea of a socialist electoral party is problematic in the first place.

[lunatica]

4. I wish it were true

Democratic Socialist sounds good to me.

[dmallind]

5. How about "I'm a Democrat not a Socialist & no more ashamed of that than not being a Green" option

[opihimoimoi]

6. I am a Progressive Socialist who believes in STABILIZING our EARTH

If that is Bad...you cannot join us.

STOP LOOK LISTEN....avoid Train Wrecks.....Learn of Togetherness and How to SOLVE for the LONG TERM....

This short term gain crap is KILLING US

Its all about our Future and the best way to approach...isn't it?

[grantcart]

7. Socialist in the US is simply a Social Democrat in the rest of the world

Now a real Socialist is something quite different.

[David__77]

8. Not necessarily.

There have always been social democrats in the US. Social Democrats USA was a right-wing group that supporting the Vietnam War, and churned out the likes of Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld. Bill Clinton was a social democrat in the sense that Tony Blair was. On the other hand, "socialist" and pro-"socialism" always indicated support for a fundamental rupture with capitalist property relations.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Fuck the GOP ... here is an avatar for the socialistically inclined ...

[ProgressIn2008]

10. Unfortunately, the Democratic party isn't socialist. I wish it were. nt

[Jack Sprat]

11. Funny kind of socialism.

Using the public's money to prop up capitalists. Reverse socialism. Ask the Repiglicans if they like it. Seems to me capitalism always heads for the edge of the cliff and has to be rescued by regulatory measures. This time, unbridled capitalism went too far and the world economy is in freefall. No predictions for a soft landing either.

[jwirr]

12. It is a name they have used against me but I have news for them - I

am proud to be called socialist.

[Bucky]

13. 40 seconds. I'm on a slow land line.

[walkaway]

14. Much better than being an anti-socialist like the repugs! n/t