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If you look at polls that go issue by issue, you inevitably come to the conclusion that the "US population" at large (55-60%) would support a broad agenda of so
by TillE 10y ago
If you look at polls that go issue by issue, you inevitably come to the conclusion that the "US population" at large (55-60%) would support a broad agenda of social democracy.
The problem isn't the people, it's the politicians. Specifically the Democrats, who refuse to push for anything but the weakest, most ineffective compromise policies.
- pharrlax 10y ago>If you look at polls that go issue by issue, you inevitably come to the conclusion that the "US population" at large (55-60%) would support a broad agenda of social democracy . . . the Democrats, who refuse to push for anything but the weakest, most ineffective compromise policies. Might these two things be linked, though? If a specific policy is not often seriously proposed, it will be more rarely attacked, and therefore not tainted by the political back-and-forth that colors proposed legislation that has a more serious chance at becoming law.
- Al-Khwarizmi 10y agoThen why did people vote for Hillary Clinton and not Bernie Sanders in the primaries? Honest question from a non-American (in the social democrat Europe, Sanders seemed like the no-brainer option to like 99% of the people I know...).