• grue@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Look, the main stream American press struggles with these abstract political concepts. The words like liberalism, socialism, etc have lost all meaning.

    What you mean is that the Republicans have spent decades on Red Scare bullshit trying to conflate Democrats with commies, and the media has been complicit in it.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah that’s pretty much it, I agree with you.

      Harris’s healthcare plans were less liberal in the economic sense of the word, as it’d involve more government control. But they were more progressive or socialist (like Medicare, social security, etc all of which are somewhat socialist as the name social security implies). Not quite as much as Sander’s though, who was pushing a true single payer system. More than just a public option though. I am really interested how much she sticks with the current plans or stakes out her own policies. Somewhat encouraged that many dems from the progressive caucus quickly endorsed her.