It seems like “radical left policies” are supported by a significant majority of Americans.
When even a majority of Republican voters agree with Bernie…
It’s pretty fucking weird when Dem politicians don’t.
Conducted by Data for Progress, the poll shows that Harris and Republican nominee Donald Trump are locked in a dead heat in the six battleground states with three months to go before the November 5 election. A slim majority of voters across the states examined feel that neither Democrats nor Republicans “have clear solutions for the biggest issues facing the country,” suggesting there’s a significant opportunity for either candidate to win over voters with a concrete policy agenda thatcenters the material needs of the working class.
The survey makes clear that progressive policy objectives have widespread appeal across the political spectrum. For example, the poll shows that 71% of voters in the battleground states—including 89% of Democrats, 67% of Independents and third-party voters, and 55% of Republicans—want the wealthy to pay more in taxes, a sentiment that aligns with progressive goals and contrasts with those of Trump and the GOP.
The poll also indicates broad support for raising taxes on big, profitable corporations; expanding Social Security by “making the wealthy pay the same rate as the working class”; hiking the long-stagnant federal minimum wage; and expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing benefits.
55% of Republicans—want the wealthy to pay more in taxes…
These aren’t Republicans then. They’re just confused morons.
True, but they are still Republican; even if they support some of our position. They are not approaching it from making society better.
Is there potential for Bernie to get a cabinet spot?
How Naive am I for asking and wanting this to be a thing?
Consider instead, Fain as secretary of labor
Oh… I should have worn my white pants.
Damn. Imagine pro-union not just being in support of them but helping to create new ones and expand those that exist.
That’s how you rebuild the middle class!
Overall pretty promising results, but the one that baffles me is the majority opposition to cutting military spending. Maybe I’m in a bubble but who the fuck looks at current spending levels and thinks that’s a good thing, especially now that we aren’t even at war. I guess the new cold war is ramping up with China but last I checked were still spending orders of magnitude more then them.
I always thought support for military spending was shallow and manufactured by the military industrial complex, but these polls seem to show a lot of people actually strongly support military spending. Looks like age is the biggest contributing factor, with under 45 supporting cuts while over 45 strongly opposing cuts. Maybe it’s a cold war thing, of nostalgia and pride for the Reagan / top gun era american empire.
Perhaps it’s manufactured well. I wonder how large of an employer is it. I can find data that shows it’s in the millions of jobs but I don’t know how many.
I think the Ukraine situation does more to increase the favorability of military spending than anything with China.
But mostly I think America being late to intervene in WWII still hangs over the American public’s heads (to me it would seem this is the point when anti-interventionism stopped being the norm.)
The problem is that we don’t really need to add money to make the country more secure. What we need to do is change the way the supplies are handled and it’s save billions. When I was in, (02-08) I was talking to the SSG of the cooks and he complained that a microwave cost the unit $1,100. If instead he was able to just use cash from an account, he could have gotten the same one for $300. But instead he had to use the system in place. Everything cost WAY more than it should. This doesn’t include mass supplies like clothing, guns and ammo, but regular items. If we could change that, we would be able to cut a little bit of funding and still save billions for development of new tech.
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Reports state sky is blue. Most of country agrees.
I think what isn’t as obvious is that independents who are typically catered to by Democrats by “being more moderate” do in fact support “radical left policies.” This invalidates the argument behind the constant push for Democrats to abandon “radical left policies” in order to win over independents. It’s just a narrative that serves Democrats’ wealthy donors and perhaps makes it harder to win elections.
That argument always seemed flimsy at best. The real reason establishment dems don’t support pro-labor policies is just like you mentioned - because their donors pay them not to do so. This definitely hurts their electoral prospects, as this is just one of a great many polls showing the majority of Americans support progressive policies.
In a lot of ways, it’s a disservice to the underlying ideas to call them leftist or progressive. Yhey’re just genuinely populist, and appeal to a lot of MAGA folks too. Those poor saps just get hoodwinked constantly by fake populists like Trump.
Right but the argument is presented in the media as a legitimate one. There’s a complete theater performance with concerned media personalities who write op-eds that present the argument, others that agree, politicians that nod, until the whole thing feels real.
Yeah, truly kabuki theatre. It starts to make much more sense once you realize the vast majority of that bribe money goes straight back to the media corporations for advertising buys.
Shit. I haven’t had made that last connection.
It’s really sad that you’re so accurate with “most.”
If ABC said the sky was blue Magoos would parrot whatever color Fox “news” says it actually is.
“The Demonrats in Congress want you to believe the sky is blue, but True Patriots™©® know there are 5 lights!”
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