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nikto

(3,284 posts)
34. I seriously think Progressives should start to use that term
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 07:22 PM
Aug 2016

Letting the wealthy still exist, and still stay quite rich, is one of the results, and hallmarks of,
Democratic Socialism. Sure taxes go way up for the rich, but it is an essentially peaceful process.

That actually constitutes Compassionate Progressivism, because progressives are not
eliminationists (wanting to destroy/eliminate some "enemy" via specific policies, as corporate Conservatives
ALWAYS try to do, as a rule).

Ofcourse, if Democratic Socialism a la FDR/Bernie Sanders is defeated and crushed by the elites (as it seems
they want to do), then somewhere down the line the elites are going to have to deal with decidedly
less-compassionate social movements of tens of millions of massed, disillusioned, angry people staring them in the face.

If I were the elites, I would settle this thing (and get back to helping the US middle class) via Social Democracy, rather
than something farther down the line that could really be nasty, and probably will not be good for either democracy or
the economy.



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92%!???!! That's cruel. Let's be reasonable. nikto Aug 2016 #19
HA! . . ~Compassionate Progressivism~ annabanana Aug 2016 #32
I seriously think Progressives should start to use that term nikto Aug 2016 #34
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