Flying Squid to Political Memes • 1 year agoThis is how you negotiate.imagemessage-square109arrow-up1933arrow-down112
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minus-squareFlying SquidOPlink16•1 year agoThe closest the U.S. has ever had to a socialist candidate becoming president, he was in prison at the time. And even then, he barely got any votes comparatively speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs And no, I don’t count Bernie. He’s not really a socialist. He’s just to the left of everyone else in the Senate.
The closest the U.S. has ever had to a socialist candidate becoming president, he was in prison at the time. And even then, he barely got any votes comparatively speaking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
And no, I don’t count Bernie. He’s not really a socialist. He’s just to the left of everyone else in the Senate.
And in Europe he’d be center-left.