AOC, Bernie, and all you Libs should read these. The countries we look up to: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, etc ain’t what they are being described. Women are worse off, guaranteed wages ain’t working, and universal healthcare is faltering too. We need a revival of Amercan Democracy.
https://www.cato.org/publications/c...omen-are-worse-democratic-socialist-countries
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-euro...el1yQWGl4xwIVe1Q2xyCHuwjE0dZF2KScGxvH318qqEQk
Lol you posted something from the Cato institute. I’m sure it’s full of anectodal stuff..
Example from conservative (and you could be either party, establishment democrats are just conservative hacks except.. with a gay son, or they like pot) hacks like you ..
(Lack of honest discussion of empirical facts .. I.e. “single payer will cost 32 trillion in ten years” without including “by the way, even libertarian studies commissioned by the fascist Koch’s say that it will cost 34 trillion doing it the way we do it now”) “people wait.... long wait time” (no specifics); “yeah my mom knew a guy in Canada .. he had to wait.”
Fiscal conservatives in the one party system have gotten everything they want for 40 years. People aren’t stupid. They drive to Naperville and oak brook and see how much more fabulous life is, then they go to the south suburbs and see that everything is decimated.
That happened under Reagan/clintonism. That’s why every wannabe Clinton 90s hack announces.. gets pumped up by the corporate media (because they’ve already had the promise meetings at Martha’s Vineyard) and within a couple weeks, their poll numbers are where Kamala Harris are.
We spend a trillion a year on defense related costs (add “aid” to other nations, homeland security, etc). Here:
Free college at state schools (as a fan of Eugene debs, I don’t think it’s necessary to pay for Notre Dame or Stanford. I’d be happy if the kids of the working poor could go to governors state for free): 60 billion
Ending homelessness in American annually: 20 billion
Single payer: just go public, cut out the waste of middle men insurance companies we save 200 billion per annum according to conservative studies.
You’re pushing propaganda. I invite you any time you want to come with me to devastated communities where people work their ass off. Let’s tell these people what you believe and within an hour I’ll have them cursing you out of their neighborhood..
I know destitute people you couldn’t keep up with for a day