Once the fringiest of marginal groups, the DSA now has close to 130,000 members, up from 5,000 15 years ago. And its members are winning Democratic primaries across the country.
Megan Romer, national co-chair, said its growth reflected a deep frustration with a system she said was failing young people. “People are, like, well, OK, capitalism’s not working,” she said in an interview. “So what else is there?”
From the article: "is increasingly popular with younger voters sick of the traditional remedies for America’s ills. "
What “traditional remedies”???
I’m 70 and neither party has done shit to help people since FDR.
There were the two blips of obama care and medicare prescription drug. Neither works particularly well, and both were crippled by the insurance and drug industries.
Pretty obvious which side FT is on. As if we didn’t already know.
It’s time to make the Democratic Party the party of FDR again
I agree. Anything is better than the current shit show.
Did you realize that FDR was a socialist right? All of the popular policies that he instituted were socialist policies.
Yeah, and his Socialist policies were the only thing that made post-war America livable.
Now that we’ve had decades to compare Socialist policies with Sociopathic Capitalist policies, Ill take the Socialists.
So?
If it works it’s good, if it doesn’t it’s bad.
Neither capitalism or socialism is inherently good or bad. They are just systems. Stop treating them like they are religions.
People and their actions make them good or bad systems.
And yet it’s funny how all the people who see capitalism as the perfect system are always the ones trying to dismantle the socialist systems that were put in place. Those same socialist systems that everybody relies upon for our society to run in a non-dystopian fashion.
Any effective government is going to be a combination of the best element of multiple systems. Every system has good and bad ideas. Keep the good ideas, ditch the bad ones, and tweak it until it works. But it’s dumb to keep the bad ideas, just so you can have the good ones. We can do anything we want.
Name a bad socialist idea. Keep in mind that socialism and communism are not the same or interchangeable in any way.
Exactly, a hybrid systems will always be the most resilient and effective.
The healthcare market exchange system that ObamaCare comes from and Project 2025 both have the Heritage Foundation in common.
The original “force people to buy private health insurance” came from the Heritage Foundation.
That idea moved into two Republican-sponsored bills in 1993, and then into Mitt Romney’s 2006 Massachusetts health law.
It was only when a democrat (obama) suggested it that they started objecting.