I think America's two major political parties deliberately confuse the conversation in order to protect the status quo. When left leaning centrists point at democratic socialist programs for universal Healthcare and higher education, the GOP equates that with communism, and the DNC responds with calls for an expansion of entitlement prog…
I think America's two major political parties deliberately confuse the conversation in order to protect the status quo. When left leaning centrists point at democratic socialist programs for universal Healthcare and higher education, the GOP equates that with communism, and the DNC responds with calls for an expansion of entitlement programs that foster dependency and poverty- the opposite of what actual democratic socialism aims to achieve. Our version of social democracy puts Wal mart workers on foodstamps whilst Wal mart pays no taxes. It's the worst of both worlds, but is marketed by dems as "a political compromise", and attacked by the GOP as another example of failed socialist policies. In fact, it's corporatism and it's supported by both parties because it serves the interests of the corporate elite, while assuaging the guilty conscience of white college educated liberals. I refuse to take the bait from the GOP establishment, and convince myself that there's no common sense middle ground where we invest in the empowerment of our kids and young adults, and protect the welfare of working families with the kinds of common sense social welfare programs that the rest of the western world adopted decades ago
I think America's two major political parties deliberately confuse the conversation in order to protect the status quo. When left leaning centrists point at democratic socialist programs for universal Healthcare and higher education, the GOP equates that with communism, and the DNC responds with calls for an expansion of entitlement programs that foster dependency and poverty- the opposite of what actual democratic socialism aims to achieve. Our version of social democracy puts Wal mart workers on foodstamps whilst Wal mart pays no taxes. It's the worst of both worlds, but is marketed by dems as "a political compromise", and attacked by the GOP as another example of failed socialist policies. In fact, it's corporatism and it's supported by both parties because it serves the interests of the corporate elite, while assuaging the guilty conscience of white college educated liberals. I refuse to take the bait from the GOP establishment, and convince myself that there's no common sense middle ground where we invest in the empowerment of our kids and young adults, and protect the welfare of working families with the kinds of common sense social welfare programs that the rest of the western world adopted decades ago