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Progressive Democrats are on a roll, Michigan has become ground zero in this fall’s midterms, and—stop me if you’ve heard this one—the polls got it wrong.
These are among the topics dominating political discourse following Abdul El-Sayed’s hairbreadth victory in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary in Michigan.
Most popular idea polled, more free stuff and tax someone else, the not so secret sauce of both red and blue team populist nonsense.
Yep.
This is how progressives point to their ideas and say they are all “popular” and that the only people who disagree with them are victims of “right wing media propaganda.”
Well, I’ve voted reliably for Democratic candidates certainly for the last 10 years (really, all votes against Trump and his toadies, such as Ron Johnson and Hovde).
If the Democrats nominate Hong (which looks very likely), I will either not vote in the gubernatorial election or vote for Tiffany.
We’ve had one party taken over by crazy.
I will not be part of the other party taken over by crazy.
Is there one elected Democrat — besides John Fetterman — who is pushing back on the left wing of the party?
Doesn’t seem like it.
I think Democrats should look to what Andy Burnham is doing in the UK.
Just this morning, I saw a story about the city council in the borough of Westminster discussing whether to curb what they call “vertical drinking,” i.e. patrons standing outside (or inside) a pub having a pint.
A spokesperson for Burnham said busy pubs full of people isn’t a public nuisance it’s a way of life in Britain.
Burnham Comes across as a normie.
Here, we get Democrat party candidates who think Thanksgiving is a difficult holiday for people.
Democrats need a course on how to be normies.
Have you met anyone who never paid an effective tax rate?
If you have, they likely work and pay payroll taxes.
And to a worker payroll taxes are still taxes.
And most of us start with relatively less income and it grows over our career.
So for myself, I had 2 jobs and paid little in 1980.
By 2001 I was doing fine and paying a reasonable share.
Plus most workers also pay a significant premium for health insurance.
That functions as a tax.
It is not at all clear that voters - at least Democratic voters - don't understand this.
So understand tradeoffs.
Your last paragraph makes sense, because democratic socialists and MAGA Republicans have a lot of the same ideas.
They are the new future uniparty.
Reading the list of DSA “priorities” I must missed the one where its a universal right to 6 hours of warm sunshine a day!
and every “non patriarchal social unit of persons are mandated to have a puppy”
I’m shocked that a country without borders or punishable crimes and mandated Soviet housing blocks isn’t popular?
People are so unreasonable
More proof the DSA are the lefty Libertarian Party with much better social media propaganda in a country with a non functioning vetting process
all from a “mass people’s movement” of ~90,000 members...(that’s 0.0004% of the adult population)
Well, the main problem with socialism, from which its popularity problem sprouts, is the fact that it doesn’t work.
If it really did put a bread in every basket and a chicken in every turducken, the popularity issue would solve itself.
The next administration will surely have to touch the hot potato of Social Security reform.
I am waiting on who will have the courage to tackle that situation.
Gee where have we seen this happen before?
My guess is the first party that figures out a new way to nominate general election candidates that cuts out the extremists and activists will control Washington for a generation.
There's quite a strong bi-partisan political machine in place to keep that from ever happening.
I think Doherty is right in the end; midterms will not be about democratic socialism.
And I doubt it's an Achilles heel either.
Setting off alarms about Project 2025 and the march of American fascism didn't much hurt MAGA candidates last round.
I think to most voters, certainly younger or youngish ones, terms like “socialism” and “communism” have the dull echo of grievances from yore.
They don't have the same scaremongering, dog-whistle effect the GOP once could depend on.
Certainly, it gives the party some fodder, but if it wasn't this, it'd be something else or something else entirely made up.
Overall, so far, much ado about nothing.
The Socialists can persuade the electorate to slash the Pentagon budget, in two or three easy steps: 1) insist on the need to balance the budget 2) propose significant tax hikes on the wealthy, to balance revenues with expenditures 3) announce that the tax hikes on the wealthy didn't suffice to prevent us from heading into a debt-crisis, so present to the electorate the choice: cut Social Security; increase taxes on the entire working population; slash the Pentagon budget.
People will soon see the wisdom of cutting military spending, withdrawing our global Gendarmerie to a more defensible line, closing military bases & Etc.
That's just head-in-the-sand foreign policy, as if the US has no role or interest in our current international alliances or in checking Russian and Chinese expansionism.
US foreign deployment is an investment in international stability....and superior logistics is our super power.
Certainly there is no way you can balance the budget without reducing or constraining military spending, but to presume that socialists have any true interest in balancing the budget is laughable.
Any dollar saved will be spent twice.
I can't wait for the department of day care or how higher education tuition will respond to another massive infusion of public money.
Socialists are people who have never run anything or invented anything who want to spend other people's money with little true accountability.
If AOC or Bernie actually had to meet a payroll, had to comply with burdensome regulations, and had to personally survive by selling a product that people actually wanted, then and only then would I trust them to properly design government programs.
These are dorm-room bong-passing fantasists who would be bartenders if they hadn't found the government socialist-selling gravy train.
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