Posted on 05/09/2020 8:16:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
He may have been one in the 19th century, as he did support the Gold Democrat John McAuley Palmer for President in 1896. But between there and the next 15 years, he was pretty clearly a devout Socialist by the time he was Governor of New Jersey in 1911 and President in 1913.
Popcorn. More popcorn. Go to toilet for half hour. Fail to give a sh!t what Dems do to fellow Dems. More popcorn. Watch steady trickle of moderate Dems to Republican, Independent and Libertarian, steady trickle of bathsh!t crazy Dems to Socialist, Green and CPA. More popcorn.
<>Yet the whole interest of socialism for those whose thinking extends beyond the covers of books and the paragraphs of periodicals lies in what it will mean in practice. It is a question of practical politics, or else it is only a thesis for engaging discourse.<>
Practical politics —> power. It was what Wilson was all about.
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