It’s like being a “Moderate Muslim”. There is no such thing. There are just Muslims. And Socialists. And the values of those two groups do not align with American values.
Lenin, when he lost and rejected the results of the Consitutent Assembly election of 1917, pronounced that there is a “higher type” of democracy which results only in the victory of Bolshevism.
“For the transition from the bourgeois to the socialist system, for the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Republic of Soviets (of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies) is not only a higher type of democratic institution (as compared with the usual bourgeois republic crowned by a Constituent Assembly), but is the only form capable of securing the most painless transition to socialism.”
Obviously Mr. Cain hasn’t seen some of the FB posts out there ‘splainin’ the difference between democratic socialism, plain old socialism and communism. LOL!
Cain is right on target. To have a real ‘socialist state’, not a social democrat welfare state there has to be compulsion and a real political police to enforce it.
Democratic socialism is like democratic fascism - it does not exist.
But in Germany, pre-WWII, the Socialist Democrat Party was alive and doing well ... Sig Heil!
Lest we, who were taught American history, forget ...
Good to hear from him and know he’s still around.
Democratic socialism - you can vote your way in, but you’ll have to shoot your way out.