Watch this video at Crooks and Liars of Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He’s obviously a long shot, but he’s quite impressive. It has been a pet peeve of mine for years that people in this country throw around the word “socialism” as if we all share a definition of that term, when in reality it is nothing but an all purpose word of derision for the right. The word has really been thrown around ever since, as Buttigieg points out, Obama’s conservative think tank inspired health plan was labeled socialist. Never have I seen anyone demand that those using the term define it. It’s just assumed that we all know what the word means, and we all agree on that meaning. As a result, it now means anything Republicans want it to mean. They always seem to get their way, don’t they?
Anyway, “Mayor Pete” is having none of that. He implicitly calls out Joe Scarborough for using a term that has become completely devoid of real content.
More of that, please.
Also, everything else he said made sense.
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