• plyth@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      Isn’t the point that those things are common decency and explicitly not yet Socialism?

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        2 days ago

        They are both common decency AND socialistic programs.

        But you might be right, perhaps (especially back then) Truman wasn’t really going for the second half of that. I somewhat retract, or at least acknowledge being less certain about, my prior response.🙂