We're like 25 years into the word "socialism" being thrown around outside of what it actually means, and now "communism" is going the same way? I really wish Bernie (or whoever came up with it) used a different term than Democratic Socialism. What he and 99% of the "super progressives" are advocating for work within the capitalist economic system. It's about regulating capitalism and taxing enough to ensure people have a bare minimum quality of life in which they can eat, have a roof, and see a doctor instead of dying from curable ailments. Even rent controls work within capitalism (something I'm not a big fan of but at least it's something). The closest I've heard of his policies is opening some government owned grocery stores but they would be in competition with privately owned grocers so what's the big fucking deal? I've never heard any politician or candidate of note suggest that the government take over Walmart, Mansanto, Ford, etc. The closest I've heard, in fact, came from anti-socialist ultra-capitalist Donald Trump who had the government take ownership shares in Nippon Steel. Unless and until we can start using these terms correctly there is no hope in my opinion. Just scary buzzwords that are now entrenched. The right wing meltdowns about Mandami are pure fucking insanity, literal breaks with reality.