tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5298227571179955698.post3185626191597584772..comments2022-03-17T06:06:47.035-07:00Comments on Let's talk: The "S" WordUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5298227571179955698.post-18430987599818253612019-02-11T07:32:54.817-08:002019-02-11T07:32:54.817-08:00I’m fascinated by all the subjects you bring up in...I’m fascinated by all the subjects you bring up in this blog (be sure to keep us posted on the new men’s underwear design!) but I think what interests me most at the moment is the subject of socialism. Krugman’s point about no one in America really understanding the term and almost everyone defining it differently is crucial and one of the reasons I wish it had never been used to define the Democratic Party. I worry that because of the inflammatory words that will be used in the 2020 presidential campaign to discredit ideas like Medicare for all, income safety nets, free college education for qualified low income kids, etc., words like “socialism,” “communism,” “Venezuela,” etc., ther will never be a considered conversation about the real benefit of any of these ideas. What you are doing in Cuernavaca with your reasoned, calm and informative discourse needs to happen across the country. But it won’t. People are too entrenched in their specific tribes and seem completely unwilling to even talk about a different way, except to vilify it. Perhaps there will be a glimmer of hope in what may happen in El Paso tonight. The president is holding a rally there but both the Republican mayor and Beto O’Rourke will be there as well to show how Americans and Mexicans go back and forth across the border to the enrichment of both. I’m sending this anonymously because I don’t have a Google account, but I’m Carol, and very proud to be Nancy’s sister!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com