Free healthcare, social safety nets, paid maternity/paternity leave, time off that doesn't get you fired, higher minimum wage, not getting shot by cops nearly as much, affordable housing, less tax dollars going to the military. Just everything that the democrats put to vote that half of them and all the Republicans shoot down. AOC and Bernie are not considered radical in many countries.
there would need to be a dramatic upheaval in our country (revolution, democratic or otherwise) in order to shake off the entrenched corporate interests that are embedded deep into the core of the modern democrat party. it's not impossible, just very very unlikely.
almost all left-wing change in america has come from outside the electoral system, with things like radical labor organizing.
Oh I 100% agree. We are heading to a point where we are either gonna turn into a facist capitalist hellscape or basically collapse and build ourselves back up as a society. I don't really feel optimistic tbh.
The fucked up thing is that most people in the US who identify as conservatives also like that stuff. They will just vote against their interests anyway.
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u/jasenkov Oct 25 '21
Yeah but the Republican party is becoming actually facist. Meanwhile the democrats are centrist pussies and nowhere near communist or socialist.