Look, I can’t turn your chicken shit hypothetical into a chicken salad hypothetical. You started with an unrealistic scenario, then implied people would be thinking deeply about Social Democracy despite not having even one basic part of it (again, unrealistic), then went and congratulated yourself when I tried to make some sense of your jibberish.
What the fuck even is your point?
My point is that misleading people about what Socialism is is not going to lead them or us to Socialism, it will teach people that they can vote for Democrats to do it and that it will not involve any sacrifice or hard decisions. We all get free healthcare, don’t ask how.
Extrapolating “I want people to think of countries they like when they hear socialism” to this is a stretch at best. It’s assuming the worst intentions and worst possible outcomes. That’s needlessly pessimistic – we’re getting nowhere if that’s how we criticize people who actually go out and try to move us left.
It’s a pattern. Obama endorsing her, meeting with those Bolivian coup supporters, deferring to party leadership on Venezuela, sanctioning China. At worst she’s an active anti-Communist and at best she’s a Social Democrat who is learning to operate Democratic Party machinery and being changed by it.
