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Teeqoz said:

Aeolus451 said:

Sure, we have social safety nets but none could be called socialism. Those programs can be attributed to good ol' fashioned human decency. Down on your luck? Sure, we'll help out for a bit. That's just trying to be to your fellow countryman. Corporate bail outs aren't socialism unless it leads to the government owning the company they gave it to.

Socialism is what Venezuela attempted by seizing companies and turning it into such a 💩 that people ate all of their pets. Equality in squalor. Btw,  just to clarify I'm not saying the people there are bad but their leaders are.

You seem reasonable here, but this completely negates your point about Bernie Sanders being a "socialist". When has he done something to make you think he wants a Venezuelan model? The countries he most often refers to as a source of inspiration are nordic countries. Which are decidedly not socialist in any strict sense of the word.

I've read and watched interviews, debates and saw comments that lead me to believe that he is. Too many fixate on the overly simplistic definition of it that they can't see the trees for the forest. What would the implementation of socialism look like policy-wise in the us? What would those policies be? 

To some of the others, when I'm talking about socialism, it doesn't mean that I'm talking about anything with social in it. If it's that easy to get people to conflates things, I might start using social with the things the left doesn't like. 😹

Just because I don't like socialism (because it's too idealistic and authoritarian), doesn't mean that I'm against social safety nets and the like. It just depends on the policy.