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    23 days ago

    Ok so just for a moment let’s pretend you are now democratic God/king/ emperor.

    You get to build the new party of the left. What policies are you going to run on to garner support from the majority of Americans? I am genuinely curious what you imagine this ideal left wing party to look like.

    • Raise the minimum wage, implement a single-payer universal healthcare system.

      When Sanders was on stage at Fox News being grilled by their anchors for being “too radical”, Sanders turned to the audience and asked them if these policies were really so radical.

      The Fox News audience chanted “No!” (to the surprise of the Fox anchors).

      Slashing healthcare costs and putting more money in people’s pockets are winning strategies, especially if you can call out Republicans on their bullshit messaging.

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        22 days ago

        So the only two things your new left wing party is going to run on is higher minimum wage (no specific amounts or percentage of local cost of living or anything specific?) and single-payer universal healthcare.

        Yeah I don’t think you would get the majority of votes by making a party based around only those two things.

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            22 days ago

            I’m not expecting a 10 page book of exactly everything you would implement and exactly how you would do it, but only answering like 10% of a question seems odd.

            That would be like me asking you to list all your ideal ingredients for a sandwich and you only said “bread” then decided you didn’t feel like thinking of the rest so you just hit send and walk away.