Maduro opponent Juan Guaidó claims Venezuela presidency. West recognizes him

Not to interrupt the subjective discussion you two are having over that blog he linked in response to me,

But Political scientists agree, DS policies closer resemble those in Canada, US, and EU rather than full blown socialism like Venezuela and that is just a fact. Mind you I am not a fan of Socialism and I'm not too keen on Democratic Socialism. I'm just fact checking, that's all. I'm sorry if you disagree with said facts.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/oct/24/future45/democrat-not-socialism-tax-increase-open-borders/

"Moving to socialism’

Republicans have used the socialist label to attack Democrats over policies for decades. It has become a common, but still false, motif during the 2018 midterms.

Running for U.S. Senate, Florida Gov. Rick Scott called Democratic incumbent, Bill Nelson, a socialist: We rated that Pants on Fire. We rated as False a claim from Republican Ron DeSantis that Andrew Gillum has a "far left socialist platform" akin to Venezuela. The claim that U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is fond of communism also rated False.

The narrowest definition of socialism is where the state owns all the means of production, said Eduardo Gamarra, a political science professor at Florida International University. That’s not what any Democrat is running on.

When Bernie Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez use the term, they are referring to expanding the social programs already available, along with potentially higher tax rates to pay for them.

That resonates with the systems in place in Canada or Europe; not Venezuela or Cuba.

Even the programs that may be labeled as socialist carry broad support, like Social Security, "which has secured bipartisan support for over 70 years," Gamarra said"

I get FOX news spinning, but reality steps in,

If you were to summarize Bernie Sanders' campaign for president, you might say that he wanted to make the United States more like Denmark. He constantly referenced that particular Nordic country, and Scandinavia in general, as a political lodestar. More recently, he rolled out a new Medicare-for-all proposal — a maximalist, extremely generous proposal to provide all Americans with health care.

Despite Sanders' self-identification as a "democratic socialist," all this is classic social democracy — a political tradition with a long and deep history in Europe, but not much in the United States. But over the past few years, Sanders has moved squarely to the front rank of American politics — and, it seems, mostly because of his political ideas.

The most successful social democracies are the Nordic countries, which built up the world's most generous welfare states during the mid-20th century. Immediately after the Second World War, most of these countries were quite poor and so did not have the huge industrial proletariat that is the traditional foundation of left-wing politics. Therefore, the social democrats relied on an alliance between workers and farmers, which gave them enough of a political base to make their parties by far the most dominant in Scandinavia's parliaments for decades. Effectively, the Nordics became developed, rich countries while simultaneously building out a big welfare state, instead of the revolutionary process envisioned by Marx.

There appears to be an attempt at disingenuous conflation by the right, clearly for 2020, to answer this valid question,

Because he knows the ideas being put forth by popular Democrats closer resembles those bolded countries, according to political science and factual policy - rather than classic socialism seen in Venezuela.