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pat_k

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1. Socializing essentials -- kinda like the 1956 Republican Party Platform.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 02:26 PM

23 hrs ago

Socializing things that in a moral society are not commodities, but are rather basic building blocks required for a society and the people in it to have a shot at building a good life.

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Socializing essentials -- kinda like the 1956 Republican Party Platform. pat_k 23 hrs ago #1

This is a list of Government programs intended to do social goods, 31j20b3 23 hrs ago #2

Deleted pat_k 23 hrs ago #3

Thank-you. lostincalifornia 23 hrs ago #5

This is a losing battle DenaliDemocrat 23 hrs ago #4

I don't think stiffling progressive Social Democratic ideas is actually Democratic 31j20b3 23 hrs ago #6

Yeah, you're like the kid that gets a Hindu DenaliDemocrat 16 hrs ago #12

I agree. What's wrong with saying "I'm a liberal Democrat who believes in regulation, lapucelle 23 hrs ago #8

Exactly... if you're explaining and defining... you're losing! QueerDuck 23 hrs ago #9

It goes something like this: "Well, I'm a socialist, but not a socialist-socialist..." QueerDuck 21 hrs ago #11

That's not socialism, democratic or otherwise. It's a mixed capitalist economy. lapucelle 23 hrs ago #7

That's Social Democracy. SocialDemocrat61 22 hrs ago #10

Those things aren't socialism creeksneakers2 12 hrs ago #13