This in-depth piece examines the influence of socialists in American politics and acknowledges the major contributions that they've made to the evolution of American capitalism in the form of democracy.
"Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy were not socialists. But the nation benefited from their borrowing of socialist and social democratic ideas. Barack Obama is certainly not a socialist. But he, and the nation he leads, would be well served by a similar borrowing from the people who once imagined Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the War on Poverty."
http://www.alternet.org/news/150683/how_socialists_built_america/?page=1
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