• @Intergalactic
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    11117 days ago

    It is also time for the Democratic Party to genuinely embrace progressive policies. It is evident that not many people were enthusiastic about Harris’s moderate campaign policies.

    • @[email protected]
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      5817 days ago

      It was time in 2016. Biden barely won in 2020 and somehow Dems took that as a mandate to be even more conservative. At this point I have no idea how progressive ideas ever get implemented.

      • @[email protected]
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        2116 days ago

        I mean, in the US, the archetype of progressive policy success, the New Deal, was only possible because of labor militancy and the threat of systemic collapse. That should give an idea

    • JaggedRobotPubes
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      316 days ago

      It would have been. Now it’s going to be…something else. Not something fundamentally similar to before. Not fun to think about.