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[–] 30 points 1 month ago (1 child)

They're not lying so much as they just don't know what those terms mean. They don't know what socialism is, or what the difference between social democracy and Democratic socialism is.

All they hear is "government does good things and must be socialism of some kind."

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago

    To be fair to people in the US, this is because Bernie and all who followed have referred to themselves as DemSocs when they're SocDems. As someone who studied PolSci this has annoyed me since the beginning, but at this point it's too far gone to do anything about it.

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