Americans are backing progressives not because they want socialism, but because they want candidates who will fight for the working class

Dropout has a point.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    “For far too long, our party has seen its job as managing decline instead of delivering material change for working people,” Mamdani said at a rally headlined by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “It has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can."

    My 27 year old son grew up under MAGA, and he and his friends don’t understand why we would want to go back to the same weak, broken system that spawned MAGA. Clearly, it was a failure.

    So why not try Socialism? Healthcare, higher wages, job security, free education, no student loan slavery, affordable housing, and more. What’s to not like? The joy of watching our slavemasters become trillionaires?