On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:46:56 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 3/15/2019 8:58 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:

>> 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.

Why do you only offer two forms of socialism as choices? A democratic
socialist isn't the same thing as a social democrat, by the way. You
hear the word "social" and you get spams because you think it refers
to socialism.