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If You Want to Understand Democratic Socialism, Look to Orwell, Not Sanders

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There is a movement behind Senator Bernie Sanders – a powerful and devoted corps of activists who are clamoring in the streets and across social media for “Democratic socialism.”  This term they tie to the Nordic model – a system built upon the vast majority of production being in private hands – profit and control – but where a robust

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Republicans Are Reactionary, Democrats are Conservative, and Other Terms We Regularly Misuse

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Words have meaning, they are imbued with it, but Western society certainly has been extremely lax in this in recent decades.  In the 1980s there were liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats and this was not seen as oxymoronic, but rather just something that was.  A person held an ideology and was a member of a political party, and these were

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