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Which mayors and governors are calling for defunding the police? Name them. The mayor of Minneapolis and the Governor of Minnesota are opposed to defunding the police.

And so what if someone calls someone a racist or a xenophobe or a homophobe. That's freedom of speech. People call me a Marxist and a Communist all the time. It's an insulting lie, but so what?

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Socialism is simply raising tax revenue to act for the greater good. Communism and Marxism call for the government ownership of the means of production.

The real issue for me is democracy. I absolutely oppose authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. I am a staunch liberal democrat.

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It is my own definition. I see socialism as a spectrum that spans from no government to totalitarian government. When a society moves toward either extreme is where our political differences emerge. In a true democracy, this distinction will ebb and flow, but will not go to one extreme or the other. Democracy naturally results in more moderate policies. It acts as a buffer against extremism.

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