NikiLyn

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Here are my principal conclusions:
1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller’s report.
2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
4. Few members of Congress have read the report.

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@VP Government wasn't involved in the conception so does not have a right to be involved in any other part of the process. Abortion, adoption, or keeping a baby is a very personal decision. Until men can conceive and carry a child they should listen and support a woman's choice.

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders Affordable Care act had both positive & negative effects. This is a break down of the numbers done in 2017. https://t.co/KE3uAW4QW2 is neither political party. So it's a safe place to check out lots of political truths and falsehoods. Hope this helps🙂

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[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders https://t.co/kPd13c0fQW

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

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[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders socialism has nothing to do with the tyrannical Soviet-style socialism, and is firmly democratic.

That was the best way to understand what the difference is and a bit of history on it. Hope this helps.

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders neoliberalism (the "privatize/deregulate everything" attitude inspired by Reagan and Thatcher) and abandoned their socialist roots in the eyes of many. Sanders cares about those socialist roots. But he also wants to assure Americans who are used to the "Red Scare" that his

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders sounds like European Social Democracy, and Sanders explicitly points to Scandinavia for his examples. But he also explicitly calls it Socialism, rather than merely "Social". It could be that's because since the 1990s, many European labour parties have embraced some degree of

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders countries have been doing so successfully since the end of World War 2: the good parts of capitalism but with clear workers' rights and an eye for economic equality.

Democratic Socialism is actually a new phrase introduced by Bernie Sanders, as far as I can tell. It clearly

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders these words. Communism is the statism of the Soviet Union (which never even had Marx's proletarian dictatorship, but a dictatorship by an elite), whereas Socialism is something more moderate and generally still democratic. Social Democracy is what so many northern European

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders So in that sense, there's no difference. Not at that time. There were many different ideas and factions, and differences on how to reach their goal, but they agreed about the principle of their goal: economic equality.

Nowadays, of course we mean very different things by

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders interchangeably to denote a Marxist ideology. Social-democrat was not more or less radical than socialist. So in that sense, there's no difference. Not at that time. There were many different ideas and factions, and differences on how to reach their goal, but they agreed about 9/

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders League. And yet they also embraced anarchism, and they called themselves "Democratic". How does that work? That article on the Social Democratic League actually explains this: Before the Russian Revolution the term social-democrat, socialist and communist were used 8/

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders century did consider themselves adherents of Marx's ideas, and argued for a revolution. For example, the Dutch Social Democratic League. And yet they also embraced anarchism, and they called themselves "Democratic". How does that work? That article on the Social Democratic 7/

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality-- Mikhail Bakunin

Eventually, though, Marx won out. Not just in Russia; many Social Democratic parties in the late 19th and early 20th 6/

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders power structure. Various anarchist movements have experimented with it on a small scale, but there have never been any revolutions on a national scale. We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery 5/

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders Other 19th century socialist thinkers, like Mikhail Bakunin, objected to that idea because it would be tyrannical and oppressive, and proposed Libertarian Socialism or Libertarian Communism instead.  The most extreme version of that rejects the idea of the state or any sort 4/

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders In the 19th century, Karl Marx championed the idea of State Communism, which would start with the dictatorship of the workers.
Other 19th century socialist thinkers, like Mikhail Bakunin, objected to that idea because it would be tyrannical and oppressive, and proposed 3/

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders But that's not true at all. It's a straw man meant to discredit the very concept of socialism. There's one thing that all forms of socialism have in common: they want to reduce economic inequality.
How much they want to reduce it, and how, that's where the difference lies. 2/

[NikiLyn @NikiLyn3]

@Jersey66484775 @BernieSanders There are many different kinds of socialism; many different perspectives on what it is, what it can or should be, and how to get there. The right wing tends to pretend that all socialism is inherently Soviet-style communism or Stalinism: an oppressive totalitarian regime. 1/