I think Americans (on the left, right, and center, regardless of race) are ready to support a populist party that prioritizes policies that are favorable towards members of the working class.
Taxing the rich. A strong FTC making big anti-trust moves. Improving affordability of (pharma) drugs & improving the pipeline for generics. Keeping banks from screwing over customers with outrageous fees & other excellent CFPB pursuits.
The horrors about to happen as education, science, weather, disaster, space, aid, and other systems are all roundly sabotaged doesn't look at all promising to me. I think we were getting a ton of value for a very very little amount of money (if you consider total spending) in these areas, that is hugely responsible for driving America's economy in countless ways. Going horror movie slasher against Medicare also seems really obviously crazy bad.
If the problem is that "tax the rich" is taxing the middle class & poor, it wasn't actually popularism. It's also not what happened under Biden nor Obama nor what Kamala's plan was!!
Stuff like this makes me really think our sides just can't share a state. We need to separate so you can be a slave for whatever it is you think you're doing and we can ignore you in peace.
None of this has been managed well for quite some time, meanwhile the deficit spending is so high we have to raise already very high taxes. Nope, just torch it.
> I think most of us would prefer the spending just get killed at this point, whatever that takes.
The current ultra-right admin promised this, and the end-result has been that things are both shittier AND more expensive. Turns out nobody actually wants to reduce spending, that's always a ruse. Please, please stop falling for this.
The moderate Democrats are the ones who voted with the establishment Republicans to kill the bank reforms put into place after the financial collapse during the first Trump term.
Trying to win with good policy alone is nightmare mode hard.
The Democrats have been utterly unwilling to go towards popularism– to calling out the capitalist classes–as the problem, as exploiters.
Also the Democrats havent gotten a ton of chance to actually do much. The last time they had a trifecta was 2011. We got the ACA, which Dems attempted very very hard to make bipartisan, and ended up passing on their own anyways after making concession after concession in failed attempts to woo in some Republicans. The ultra conservative supreme court and court shopped to high hell 5th district have also kept any possible progress from happening. Running on talk alone is hard, in a system set up to only enable obstruction & de-governance.
Please start a party, I’ll vote for you all day every day. IMO all of the current US issues stem from wealth inequality getting over politics, fixing this (with taxes and antitrust) and all of a sudden rest will get better to.
This being said party built on “tax the rich” wouldn’t be perceived as centrist, taxes-are-for-socialists is too ingrained in people’s minds.
