Ron Filipkowski has a warning for us

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29. Absolutely, and we need to clearly state that many other labels Dems get are lies too.

Socialists
Communists
Anti-American

Etcetera, etcetera.

Pretty sure our Democratic "socialists" are really Democrats believing in the common good. I've always thought it was an unfortunate word choice if my take is right. I doubt if they are against mom and pop small business and don't want to prevent people from working hard and earning money. If I'm right, they believe that some things should be funded by sharing in the financial load, but not everything.

Wish they would say that, and ditch the word socialism which has a terrible association with authoritarians to this day, like Hugo Chavez and Nicolás Maduro. Those associations will never go away. So why hang on to that word?

The idea of a common good is baked into American history from the time of our founding. And the economic system is irrelevant to the concept. Capitalism and the common good (a.k.a. general welfare) have worked together historically pretty well, so why insist the common good can only be achieved with an economic system of socialism – if they do, which I actually don't believe is what they really mean.

Public education, disaster relief and recovery, postal service, the national highway system, fire departments, environmental regulations, social security and medicare, public lands, rural electrification, common carrier regulations for telephone systems, our military forces, and so much more are already understood by most Americans as important common goods. Health care should be added to that list of course, as should a number of other common goods like high speed broadband.

But I'm not a Democratic Socialist so maybe they really do mean the entire economic system rather than the general welfare of the Preamble to the Constitution.