Nowhere GirlWhat's called "socialism" in America was bog standard "liberalism" a few decades ago. In some cases, it was considered moderate, common sense bipartisan policy. Even Nixon thought universal healthcare and the Clean Air Act were good ideas!
So you know, who does it serve when the "liberal" party talks about this stuff and progressive politicians like born again McCarthyites?
Republicans would never have been able to do so much damage to this country without post-Reagan Democrats helping them shift the Overton Window because they wanted a piece of the action.
The Democratic MO since I was a child has been to enable the cancerous growth of industries like fossil fuels, health insurance, investment banking, "AI," or what have you and then treat them as inevitabilities that are "too big to fail" and thus, too big to be reined in or replaced, subsidizing them with taxpayer money while externalizing the costs onto ordinary people.
At the same time, these Democrats walked back support for civil rights and progressive social causes.
Yeah, occasionally they were flatfooted by things like gay marriage. But for the most part, they've been behind the explosive growth in police power, mass incarceration, surveillance, censorship, deportations, etc.
All while turning a blind eye to the collapse of abortion and voting rights.
Like, if it needs to be said, the Democrats are a conservative party.
They're not even socially liberal, fiscally conservative.
They're just conservative-conservative.
Worse than fucking Nixon, like I said, in some respects.
GeoWend
gypsyveganThe contemporary Democratic party is to the RIGHT of Eisenhower. A side-by-side comparison of their policy agendas shows this to be true, and if more people realized it, their idea of what the word "conservative" means might start to bear resemblance to reality.
Jeremy Mallin