I am already getting emails from conservative-Republican candidates calling all Democrats “socialists” when I don’t think that any of the national Democrats are truly socialists at all. NONE. To me, they are all “liberals” and “progressives” who are NOT advocating for the abolition of our market-based capitalist economic system and who simply want to develop a more “HUMANE” capitalism which has more federal government social programs to help people.
They want the USA to be more like our allies in Canada, western Europe, and Scandinavia. I don’t consider these countries to be “socialist.” These other countries don’t consider themselves to be “socialist” countries. I lived in Canada for five years, and I never heard any Canadian citizen say that their country is “socialist.”
People like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are NOT true socialists. If they really were, they would be extremely foolish because there has never been a large-sized society in which a truly socialist economy has ever been able to produce enough wealth to meet the basic survival needs of its citizens. To put it simply, it has never “worked.”
A very well-known economist named Paul Krugman has made the same points that I have in his article in the February 13, 2020 edition of “The New York Times” newspaper. Its title is “Bernie Sandera Is Not A Socialist.”
