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Posted by tangplay on 8/14/2018 2:02:00 PM (view original):
Also BL isn't a typical liberal. If you want to bunch wylie and I up as leftists then fine. That's equivalent to calling Trump a racist. Downplays actual crazies.
wylie is more moderate than you two. Remember our men in women's locker room debate.
This is true. Wylie is moderate. I am a liberal. BL is a leftist.
No. You call yourself a social democrat. That is not a liberal. That is a Leftist.
That's not necessarily true.
Yes, Sir, it is. Liberalism and Social Democracy are not interchangeable terms. I'm not feeling very well at the moment or I would highlight the ways they diverge.
I don't see you doing any harm by claiming to be both. The time is coming soon enough when the internal power struggle between the liberals and the social democrats for control of the Democratic Party will come to a head. For the moment, these two disparate groups are still maintaining a tenuous alliance.
They may not be interchangeable but they aren’t terribly different. For instance, liberals might want a public option for health insurance while leftists may want Medicare for all.
Mechanically, those ideas are very different but, ideologically, they are coming from the same place: improving access to healthcare through taxation and government programs instead of relying only on the private market.