They want to frame all of the safeguards that we have in our capitalist society as socialists, you know, regulating industry so that they don't dump poison into the water in the air. They want to call that socialist to try to have alternative energy sources and to diminish our fossil fuel imprint. They call that socialist. So I think that Democrats have got to stop being shy about that term which is going to be hurled at us. I have a democratic socialist. (14:21–14:32)
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Asserts that some people label efforts to promote alternative energy and reduce fossil fuel use as socialist.
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