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cer7711

(617 posts)
9. These are the winning issues for a populist party:
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 08:51 AM
Jun 2025

-- a public option/Medicare for all
-- paid family leave
-- a living wage for all full-time employees
-- lift the cap on Social Security

Poll-after-poll shows these issues to be broadly supported across all political parties.

Yet nothing substantive is ever done.

Why?

The truth is simple, brutal, incontrovertible: the oligarchs who control our government don't want any progress made on these issues.
So nothing happens.
Simple as that.

The donor class and their paid mouthpieces in Congress grow impatient and annoyed when you point out the obvious.

Tell me I'm wrong.

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True, and also... Mike Nelson Jun 2025 #1
NYC has a long history with quasi-socialist parties bucolic_frolic Jun 2025 #2
You're referring to rent control and free public transit, I'm guessing 😒 EYESORE 9001 Jun 2025 #3
Affordable housing is a national message, along Emile Jun 2025 #5
You got that right EYESORE 9001 Jun 2025 #6
"Single-payer health care will "never, ever" happen" Autumn Jun 2025 #12
Hillary Clinton? Emile Jun 2025 #13
Yes. Autumn Jun 2025 #14
A message of "can't we all get along" has failed even worse JHB Jun 2025 #4
James Carville wrote the opposite in Washington Post IronLionZion Jun 2025 #7
I've said it for awhile now & people look at me skeptically, Joinfortmill Jun 2025 #8
Not soon enough to save many lives, though. (nt) Heidi Jun 2025 #22
These are the winning issues for a populist party: cer7711 Jun 2025 #9
Apparently Congress believes more tax cuts for Billionaires Emile Jun 2025 #10
No they won't. They will fight it every step of the way. Autumn Jun 2025 #11
Some will read the writing on the wall, others will ignore it. Passages Jun 2025 #15
He was on with Chris Hayes last night malaise Jun 2025 #16
The working class went for Cuomo JI7 Jun 2025 #17
Where is the data supporting that. Would love Nanjeanne Jun 2025 #19
Let me consult the oracle. Heidi Jun 2025 #18
We should be so lucky Arazi Jun 2025 #20
"I've got news for the Republican establishment. I've got news for the Democratic establishment. They can't stop us." W_HAMILTON Jun 2025 #21
K&R usonian Jun 2025 #23
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