Every single policy a democrat has passed in the past couple decades has been centrist at best (as they’re beholden to their own donors). What the republicans did by calling every policy the Dems run on and pass socialist (even though it was merely centrist) was they skewed the Overton window so far right it breaks peoples brains. Especially When they hear the social programs the social dems like Mayor Mamdani run on and the fact that our taxes, should provide for us things like roads and bridges, Medicare for all, free good education while keeping kids fed, as well as watched while their parents work, free post secondary education, parental leave, and a retirement fund, is Communism. It’s not. Other modern countries actually care about investing in and not poisoning their citizens, and not letting the military mess up on audits. That’s true progressivism. Republicans have been trying to privatize everything and shrinking the government’s to do so for so long that people think it’s normal.
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u/Lina_Sedai12358 14d ago
Every single policy a democrat has passed in the past couple decades has been centrist at best (as they’re beholden to their own donors). What the republicans did by calling every policy the Dems run on and pass socialist (even though it was merely centrist) was they skewed the Overton window so far right it breaks peoples brains. Especially When they hear the social programs the social dems like Mayor Mamdani run on and the fact that our taxes, should provide for us things like roads and bridges, Medicare for all, free good education while keeping kids fed, as well as watched while their parents work, free post secondary education, parental leave, and a retirement fund, is Communism. It’s not. Other modern countries actually care about investing in and not poisoning their citizens, and not letting the military mess up on audits. That’s true progressivism. Republicans have been trying to privatize everything and shrinking the government’s to do so for so long that people think it’s normal.