What are You?

[Florestan]

Interesting, what you Europeans call a "Champagne socialist" we Americans call a "limousine liberal." Though Champagne drinking is surely more common than limousine riding!

Well, yes --- and this shows that Socialism proper is much more commonly accepted in Europe than in the USA. 

Look, guys, let me tell you this. I don't identify as a Socialist at all. I identify myself as a Liberal in the strict Romanian tradition --- which would translate roughly as a Christian-Democrat in Germany and Italy and as a centrist (possibly slightly left-wing) Conservative in the USA. Now, the husband of my paternal aunt is Spanish; he has been a card-carrying Socialist since 1970s (Franco time) until recently --- yet when I told him that, in case of conflict between liberty or equality I'm on principle on the side of liberty, he agreed wholeheartedly. You tell me, dear friends: is he a closet Liberal or am I a closet Socialist? (I tend to the former).

[DaveF]

Champagne Socialist definitely!

Me too - except I can't afford champagne.  Prosecco Socialist.

[Holden]

Some would say I'm the last choice on the list......

[vandermolen]

Me too - except I can't afford champagne.  Prosecco Socialist.

Yes, I can't afford it either!

[vandermolen]

Don't get me wrong, Jeffrey, your daughter is a very classy lady which I'd be honored to meet --- but politically I'd rather take a sincere, committed and poor-as-a-church-mouse Socialist / Communist over her "Socialism".

Haha - I agree with you Andrei! Despite once attending the Henley Regatta she is not really a Champagne Socialist and has worked for MSF in Eastern Ukraine and a disability charity in India - probably I am more of a CS than she is. 

[DaveF]

Interesting, what you Europeans call a "Champagne socialist" we Americans call a "limousine liberal." Though Champagne drinking is surely more common than limousine riding!

After posting last night I came across another term for it - Bollinger Bolshevik.

[SimonNZ]

Cheapest bottom shelf merlot socialist.

So I voted proletarian.

[vandermolen]

After posting last night I came across another term for it - Bollinger Bolshevik.

That's great!

From online Oxford Reference:

Bollinger Bolshevism
An alternative and somewhat more extreme term for champagne socialism (Bollinger is a particularly distinguished and expensive Champagne marque; see ...

[ritter]

I don't see "stinking rich" among the choices...

[Wanderer]

I don't see "stinking rich" among the choices...

Maybe because pecunia non olet. 😉

[Karl Henning]

Don't get me wrong, Jeffrey, your daughter is a very classy lady which I'd be honored to meet --- but politically I'd rather take a sincere, committed and poor-as-a-church-mouse Socialist / Communist over her "Socialism".

Poverty is indeed best left to church mice.

[Florestan]

I don't see "stinking rich" among the choices...

Fixed.

[ritter]

Fixed.

Good! Let's see if the option gets a vote (it won't be mine, unfortunately  .

Good day to you, Andrei.

[steve ridgway]

As I never learnt Latin at school, lower middle class.

[Roasted Swan]

Once on a national tour of Blood Brothers years ago, one of the cast said to me that "you and your kind will be first against the wall come the revolution".  To this day I have no idea what "my kind" was or whether it was a wider comment on the quality (or lack of) in my violin playing.

[(poco) Sforzando]

My daughter put it as her 'Facebook status' a few years ago after I accused her of being one when, despite being deeply concerned with social/political injustice, she attended the 'Henley Regatta' - a very posh event on the Thames.

I don't know about those pink pants, Jeffrey.

[prémont]

I don't see "stinking rich" among the choices...

I suppose it is synonymous with Aristocrat.

[Florestan]

I suppose it is synonymous with Aristocrat.

Why, of course: Jeff von Bezos, Bill de Gates, Warren Duke of Buffett...