[ExI] I hate to say it but, I agree with Trump

[Ben Zaiboc]

On Wednesday, 2 September 2026 at 22:46, spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> 
> >> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> ...
> >>... Regarding our two-party system, it may be going to a three-party
> system with the rise of the Socialist party in America.  We don't yet know
> how that will play out.  Stand by and watch the next coupla years.
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> 
> >..."The Socialist Party of America was founded in 1901 and dissolved in
> 1972, having been a significant political force advocating for socialism in
> the United States. It later split into several groups, including the
> Socialist Party USA and the Democratic Socialists of America."
> 
> >...I can find nothing about a current socialist party in the US. It's all
> in the past tense.
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> Ben
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> Ben, the Democrat Socialists are socialists.  They are not getting along
> with the current Democrat party.  I can easily imagine a mutual agreement to
> drop the Democrat part of their name soon.  Two good examples currently are
> mayors: Mayor Mamdani in New York City and Mayor Katie Wilson of Seattle.
> 
> I do heartily encourage these leaders to turn their cities into socialist
> government structures, for it is I who observed on this list that there is
> no legal reason why US states cannot become socialist, no reason why
> counties and cities cannot be socialist.  I found it odd that of fifty
> states, 3244 counties, about 20,000 cities and town, none of them had become
> socialist.  So... why not?  Some government at one of those levels (not
> where I live, but elsewhere) should go socialist.  Let us see how it works.
> Let us see people experience the warm embrace of socialism.  Let us see if
> the Democrat Socialist Mayor Mamdani can demonstrate how New York City
> escapes the frigidity of rugged individualism, to embrace the warmth of
> collectivism.
> 
> We are watching, and actually hoping he succeeds.  I do mean that.


I suspect that the word 'socialist' has negative connotations that would make people hesitant to apply the word to themseves. Remember what the short form of the german word Nationalsozialist is. It's also perilously close to 'communist'.

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Ben