> I'm not sure why people use socialist in a pejorative manner.
Not going to run the history lesson here, but the cold truth is that most of the US isn't into 'progressive' thought, and socialism isn't acceptable to them. Most of the liberals aren't really comfortable with the actual left.
Whether it is or isn't pejorative, what it is, is not something that would be an acceptable thing for a winning candidate in 2016 outside of Seattle, SF, and a few other cities.
I would bet that Bernie would have lost with less than Hillary's EVs if he'd run, on that fact alone.
Anyway. The die is cast, the stamps are being made.
Not going to run the history lesson here, but the cold truth is that most of the US isn't into 'progressive' thought, and socialism isn't acceptable to them. Most of the liberals aren't really comfortable with the actual left.
Whether it is or isn't pejorative, what it is, is not something that would be an acceptable thing for a winning candidate in 2016 outside of Seattle, SF, and a few other cities.
I would bet that Bernie would have lost with less than Hillary's EVs if he'd run, on that fact alone.
Anyway. The die is cast, the stamps are being made.