Raises the question as to why human decency is considered progressive….

They distract with the culture war to divert attention from class warfare.

men competing in every single K-12 female sports event

I kind of do want this, though? Like, not every event, but every once in a while let's have a soccer match of a team of 6 year old girls versus a couple of middle-aged men. Just to see what happens.

Hey, if Musk can make "everything computer" why can't I make everything transgender?

This fact is now recognized by a majority of democratic voters, for the first time in my life.

Shut up and do what Ezra Klein says!

I see you've been taking to Katie Hobbs!

republicans-from-40-years-ago

You're off by a factor 10.

Democratic candidates will campaign on retaking both houses and then promise to work across the aisle for common sense tax reform.

Our oligarchs still largely fund politicians, so our politicians naturally tend to favour the belief system of their funding.

No this is just the people saying it not leadership saying/part of the dems platform

I'll give you the first paragraph of each section.

Introduction

Liberal Democrats now make up a clear majority of their party ​and view universal healthcare, greater abortion access and higher taxes on the rich as essential political positions, underscoring how Democrats have moved ‌leftward in recent years, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

String of Victories

Insurgent left-wing candidates this year have racked up a string of ​primary victories over more centrist Democrats, many of whom were backed by the party establishment. They have gone beyond New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's election last year in a deeply liberal city to vie for office in more politically divided states.

Divisions on Israel

Only ⁠16% of Democrats support military and economic support for Israel, while 57% oppose it, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Among liberal Democrats, more than 80% said reducing or eliminating that support was either important or essential for any liberal; only 18% ​said it was not important.

And this is the poll of interest:

Yeah but taxing the hell out of them helps with lowering production of them. The highest bracket tax rates used to be >90%

Man, if we convince every single issue gun rights voter that the left is actually pro gun - shit, we could go bring justice to the pedophiles by next week. Fuck voting at that point.

Seriously though. We literally have our own version of the NRA on the left, the SRA. Any self respecting leftist owns at least one firearm.

The strawman, he's long dead.

Its a conservative supreme court, you don't have to be a single issue voter. Progressive candidates can try to make promises to get elected, but no ones going to be able to take your guns away. Even a progressive court wouldn't be able to do that much. A law for background checks or waiting periods on purchases might be upheld by a progressive court, but the right ultimately won't be infringed.

People like you would go after pennies in the name of downplaying the debt. There are bigger fish to fry in the budget than not having universal healthcare. Let's look at the oil subsidies, telecom subsidies, in fact give every single one a good glance over. I'm certain we can save enough billions to pay for healthcare multiple times over.

Maybe stop paying $1.5 trillion dollars to the military industrial complex serving Israel, Wall St, military contractors and big oil.

And maybe stop giving the rich tax breaks on generational wealth and capital gains.

We only need a homeland defense force. That’s it. $100-150 billion a year is plenty. If we stopped the disgusting amount of military spending, we could have modern safety nets just like Europe.

Universal healthcare is pretty cheap compared to all the money we’ve been hemorrhaging on wars, support to countries like Israel, tax cuts… hell, all of this is small potatoes compared to the economic destruction that’s been done with these tarriffs.

We could have good healthcare for everyone for far less money than has been spent fighting with Iran this year.

Also, the USA can still afford all this and more because we are the richest society in history. Let’s keep some perspective. Even with all the crazy bullshit that’s happened in the last few years, we’ve never actually been lacking for money. It just gets prioritized into stupid shit.

There’s enough money in this country to pay for everything we want, and still have lower taxes than Europe. We just have to stop letting hoarders control the money.

We can walk and chew gum.

US military spending is higher than the next 9 countries combined.

Cut it in half, it'd still be the largest in the world and we could fund just about anything we can imagine.