On 3/15/2019 8:58 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 05:50:27 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
>> On Friday, March 15, 2019 at 6:30:14 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 03:23:25 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Friday, March 15, 2019 at 6:16:51 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 03:10:14 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Moderates are getting scarce as hen's teeth. The system of primaries
>>>>>> and caucases ensures that candidates are moving to the extremes.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Moderates" won't change anything. Under "moderates" the
>>>>> corporations/big companies/rich people will retain all the power and
>>>>> the average people will continue to be screwed over.
>>>>
>>>> I hate to be the one to tell you, but corporations/big companies/rich
>>>> people will always have all the power.
>>>
>>> You can nibble bits off that power by electing the right people. But
>>> for some stange reason Americans think that these people are
>>> socialists.
>>
>> Because Fox News tells them so. They aren't sophisticated enough thinkers
>> to know the difference between socialists and social democrats.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>
> C'mon, they don't even know what socialist means. They've been taught
> that it must be really bad by those who want to keep their power.
> Most people watch TV and Fox for entertainment, nothing so serious as
> understanding their government.
>

Simple definition:
An economic system in which the production and distribution of goods are
controlled substantially by the government rather than by private
enterprise, and in which cooperation rather than competition guides
economic activity. There are many varieties of socialism.


That sounds nice, but do you want the government to control everything?
Do you want the government to determine the cars we drive, the types of
housing to be built, how much money we can earn? Government control of
food production? What the stores will carry?

Then you move to the Democratic Socialits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism
Democratic socialism is a political philosophy that advocates political
democracy alongside social ownership of the means of production.
Democratic socialism is the wing of the socialist movement that combines
a belief in a socially owned economy with that of political
democracy.</ref> with an emphasis on self-management and democratic
management of economic institutions within a market or some form of
decentralized planned socialist economy.[1] Democratic socialists
espouse that capitalism is inherently incompatible with what they hold
to be the democratic values of liberty, equality and solidarity; and
that these ideals can only be achieved through the realization of a
socialist socie


Now, please tell us what you think it is and what you would like to happen.