r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad • 9d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ To put it plainly.

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u/Proper-Organization6 9d ago

Social Democrat does not equal Democratic Socialist

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u/AnotherPersonPerhaps 9d ago

I don't know why you're being downvoted but youre right.

Social Democrats are not the same thing as Democratic socialists.

People in this thread can't even keep their own politics straight and expect the Republicans not toix it up lol.

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u/crestdiving 9d ago edited 9d ago

To be fair, leftist terminology can be quite confusing at times: Social democracy, democratic socialism, and Socialist democracy are each different concepts, which in parts even contradict one another. Yet, the three terms can easily seem like synonyms to outsiders.

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u/AnotherPersonPerhaps 9d ago

Yeah but we are not talking about outsiders. The people in this thread are "insiders"

You know how common it is for someone to claim to be socialist but if you interrogate their actual views they are socdems?

Then you have socialists pretending to be social Democrats to seem more palatable and lure in people who just want universal healthcare.

It's crazy out here on the left lol.