According to that.

that's just a start. We can go far more socialist than that

I was taking that and thinking "this isn't a test for Democratic Socialists...it's a test for real Democrats." That should be the Democratic litmus test. If you can't get at-least 7/10 on that...please kindly get the fuck out of my party, closeted Republicans.

I disagree with a couple "Dem Soc" planks as presented in that quiz.

Only white people support Bernie!

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I luv ya for that. You're a real teller of the Unvarnished Truth.

I tend to be more "pragmatic" in a faith that the system can be self-correcting withij the current model. But I increasingly think what is termed "pragmatism" is actually a form of Magical Thinking.

once it starts to be taken seriously and changes one's world view.

I think I am pragmatic but my pragmatism is a drive toward what must be done in a physics trumps politics, not trading cold comfort for morally required change, and the stewardship of being the ones holding the strings and obligated to pass on a better world kinda ways is all.

I appreciate the compliment though but it is just accepting that humans are a young species with no evidence to support we have much capacity for constructing self correcting systems at all but rather in reality what we build tends toward entropy and requires vigilant effort to maintain and improve to prevent collapse.
The thought of self correcting systems is probably a mass delusion because in no other area does such work. Marriages and relationships of that kin take work. Friendships take effort. Businesses require constant management.

Pretty much nothing worthwhile "takes care of it's self" in our personal lives and so it goes with our economic, political, and community structures and institutions too.

We hold the strings because we are the only people alive. We are the stewards of all that has been and all that will ever come in our fleeting moments it is not our place morally or logically to kick the ever growing can down the road or to tell ourselves it will all work out in the end if we are not doing what it takes to make it work and instead relying for all intents and purposes on another variation of the "invisible hand" fallacy to carry the day.

people "waking the fuck up and start using common sense and decency" kind of way.

Problem is -- on a universal scale -- we're all infants and adolescents. Just as we start to gain some maturity and wisdom, it's time to move on to the Great Comic Whatever. And a new crop of infants comes along and has to learn the same damn lessons all over again.

I'm old enough now that I can already see that we as a country are not likely to learn any lesson in this coming election. I posted something about the 1976 campaign of Fred Harris. The things he proposed and warned about are still timely. And still dismissed in favor of the glossy same-old status-quo in a shiny package.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251718029

But hope springs eternal, I guess.

if you fail to try then you are trying to fail.

if I didn't believe i trying, I'd be on a Fantasy Football site or something rather than DU

I got "you might be a Democratic Socialist"

Glad to see things are moving more toward the people.

tell me what I am and am not.

and I say "Yeah! Preach it, brother!"

And I hear Hilary speak, and I say, "Groan!"

And I hear the Klown Kar Kandidates speak, and I say "Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! My brain hurts!"

I don't need a test to tell me who I am

it isnt even a socialist test, but rather a progressive dem test

if dems and progressive cant agree on most of what is there, we are in trouble

even before I knew of Bernie I was labeled as Democratic Socialist. Now I'm glad I don't have to hide or be labeled as a Commie for being pro people.