Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Ocasio-Cortez DESTROYS Meghan McCain live on air, gets huge ovation [View all]Celerity
(44,233 posts)valid example of a democratic socialist. He was amongst the most archetypal 3rd-way neoliberals and is HATED by actual socialists, democratic of otherwise. I would lay more than a few quid on a wager that over 90% of Bernie's core groups (especially the higher up you go, and especially within the intellectual circles that underpin vast parts of his campaign's zeitgeist) detest Blair with the passion of a thousand burning suns.
Btw, Blair is a war criminal, like Bush, with the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands. I know almost no one who admires him, and that cuts across a multiplicity of political perspectives and philosophies. The stain of his involvement in the murderous and illegal Iraq War is far too large.
As for the Fabians, they were borne from a crucible of support for eugenics and the rabid support of the British empire. They will forever suffer from the curse of that fruit from those poisonous trees.
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Real socialism has always ended in tears and destruction (and please do not try and conflate social democracy, like we have here in the Nordics, with actual true socialism) so you will forgive me if I give a HARD pass to dragging our party into that paradigm of failure.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden