the Democratic Party seems to love socialism today thanks to Bernie Sanders, AOC and the squad.
Bernie has always been that way, but the so called squad is less than 1% of the House of Representative and have more power over conservatives thought processes than they do liberals. On the left we get to hear about the New Q Caucus.
there are some who disagree with you and say it is possible that socialism is in our future.
I'm not saying it's impossible, just improbable considering how long it's been a talking point on the right.
we are moving toward a authoritarian communist form of government.
I disagree. We've increased the number of participants in our democratic elections and have nearly a 50/50 tie in government with the tie breaker going to the Dems right now. We are mired in partisan gridlock.
I was a registered democrat for half a century and come from a long line of people in worked in the Pennsylvania iron and steel mills and were also democrats. They stood on union picket lines in the rain and snow to fight for worker’s rights and benefits. At that time the Democratic Party was the party of the working man.
Recently the Democratic Party changed and left me behind. In my opinion the Party went batshit crazy. I blame Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Hopefully the more rational people in the Democratic Party will regain full control and return sanity to their Party.
We don’t need true socialism in this nation as exists in Venezuela or communism as in Cuba. Why take the current leading super power in the world and ruin it. We can have a form of “cuddly capitalism” somewhat similar to that in Nordic nations such as Denmark and Sweden.
We don’t need local governments defunding the police, eliminating bail, letting violent criminals out of prison and ignoring crimes such as shop lifting and theft.
There definitely is a thing called “hate speech” but it shouldn’t be banned. Freedom of speech was not placed in the Bill of Rights to protect acceptable speech. If we start banning certain speech we end up banning criticism of government policies which is happening today.
We need a southern border and we need ICE. We also need to overhaul our outdated immigration system.
We should never teach our kids that this is a evil nation of racism, for racism and by racism. It’s not a perfect nation and never was but that is true of all nations. Over the years we have made considerable improvement and hopefully that trend will continue.
We definitely do not need looting and riots on a regular basis every time a white cop kills a black individual. While some cops are bad not all cops are and we need all the good ones we can retain or recruit.
Peaceful demonstrations are fine, looting and burning down blocks of a city is not. Throwing bricks and commercial fireworks at the police is not. Blocking streets and attacking the occupants inside of cars is not.
We don’t need to stack the Supreme Court nor do we have any real reason to make Washington D.C. a state.
The people we elect for Congress need to relearn how to compromise. They also need to learn they work for us and we don’t work for them.
This nation is now on the verge of breaking apart and if it does the whole world will be negatively affected.