• TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Fair point! Still, let’s be careful with dismissing these polls. If someone can tar your policy with labels like Liberal, Socialist, or Leftist, it can turn a lot of Americans off.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Welcome to the Republican platform for the last 30+ years. They’re been calling everything under the sun Communist, Socialist, and Fascist specifically so people no longer know what those words mean. Combine that with reducing both federal and state education spending whenever possible and vilifying upper education as some sort of liberal conspiracy/propaganda machine, and you’re just about caught up.