Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
You don't need to aplogize, Kukri. I know what you meant. I objected to political semantics. For another example, just to be more of a pest and further make your life miserable, there are precisely zero socialist EU members. The EU prevents membership of 'socialist' states.

Semantics indeed. But semantics are important. They shape people's perception of reality.
Oh, I see. There is hyper-sensitivity to the term "socialist" because of previous bad experience with people who called themselves soviet socialists, and national socialists. Correct? So we have to call it something else.

"Mature Democratic" leaves a lot to the imagination, but I see where you're going with it, implying a more nuanced evolution over time of democracy. But it doesn't make a snappy acronym.