Current Events > why do American social democrats call themselves progessives?

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coolboy11
08/20/20 1:00:33 PM
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American social democracy must be a special branch from the other social democrats the world over eh, American politics are the weirdest on the planet (not really but probably)

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Sackgurl
08/20/20 1:01:12 PM
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50 years of McCarthyism conditioning people to not accept one term and a hundred years of teddy roosevelt hero worship conditioning people to accept the other

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coolboy11
08/20/20 1:03:21 PM
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Sackgurl posted...
50 years of McCarthyism conditioning people to not accept one term and a hundred years of teddy roosevelt hero worship conditioning people to accept the other
I remember a good Quora answer (yes they exist) saying that Social Democrats just ended up adopting socialism because the Right Wing was goign to call them that anyway which is why we have people calling boring moderate social democrats like AOC and Sanders damn near radicals lol.

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