u/AlexandrTheTolerable

Socialism is a word that comes with a ton of baggage that means different things to different people. When Roosevelt wanted to remake American government to help the poor, he brought the New Deal. Lyndon Johnson had the Great Society, and they were both quite successful.

We should start with a fresh brand that means the things that are important to people today: Affordability, fairness, money out of politics, etc. Why do we want to use a term that’s tarnished from its misuse by the likes of Stalin and even Hitler? To support anything with “socialism” in the name, we have to first undo all of that (“socialism doesn’t mean what you think, moron!”). We can do better.

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