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> I must treat my children as badly as the worst parent in the name of equality This is close to the right-wing trope "the left wants everyone to be equally po

> I must treat my children as badly as the worst parent in the name of equality This is close to the right-wing trope "the left wants everyone to be equally poor", when in reality it's more about gaining support for progressive policies such as free high-quality daycare, schools, health care for everybody. And realizing that it's super-expensive but still better for everyone in the long run. Beyond that, of course every parent should do their best to raise their kids right.

zepto 5y ago
> it's more about gaining support for progressive policies such as free high-quality daycare, schools, health care for everybody I haven’t heard the left talk much about these things for a long time. These days it’s about defunding the police, blaming billionaires and tech, gun control etc.
- DangitBobby 5y ago
  Strange, I hear about them all the time. Aren't they literally trying to pass affordable daycare as part of an infrastructure bill as we speak [1]? Wasn't a significant portion of the progressive platform during the Democratic primaries (not to be confused with Biden's platform) Medicare for All and other such progressive healthcare reform? I'm curious who you are listening to, because it's not progressive leadership (or would-be leadership). 1. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/991061868/democrats-outline-care-infrastructure-plan-with-paid-leave-and-child-care https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/991061868/democrats-outline-c...
  - zepto 5y ago
    I don’t know who ‘progressive leadership’ is, but these are all things that Biden and Harris have openly talked about along with others like Elizabeth Warren, with the exception perhaps of defunding the police, which definitely seems to have been a strong message from other progressives. The message you suggest would probably be a lot more palatable to people if it weren’t crowded out by this stuff.
    - DangitBobby 5y ago
      I'm not at all saying that the latter half (police defining, tech regulation, gun control) are not part of the platform. I'm merely pointing out that the other things ("progressive policies such as free high-quality daycare, schools, health care for everybody") are definitely part of the platform. Though the healthcare reform feels conspicuously absent from the current agenda.
      - zepto 5y ago
        > Though the healthcare reform feels conspicuously absent from the current agenda. That leaves free daycare and some unspecified improvement to ‘schools’. I’m sure they are part of the platform and I’m sure they are trying to allocate money to some unspecified implementation, but those are pretty muted and low on the list it seems.

zepto 5y ago

> it's more about gaining support for progressive policies such as free high-quality daycare, schools, health care for everybody I haven’t heard the left talk much about these things for a long time. These days it’s about defunding the police, blaming billionaires and tech, gun control etc.

DangitBobby 5y ago
Strange, I hear about them all the time. Aren't they literally trying to pass affordable daycare as part of an infrastructure bill as we speak [1]? Wasn't a significant portion of the progressive platform during the Democratic primaries (not to be confused with Biden's platform) Medicare for All and other such progressive healthcare reform? I'm curious who you are listening to, because it's not progressive leadership (or would-be leadership). 1. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/991061868/democrats-outline-care-infrastructure-plan-with-paid-leave-and-child-care https://www.npr.org/2021/04/27/991061868/democrats-outline-c...
- zepto 5y ago
  I don’t know who ‘progressive leadership’ is, but these are all things that Biden and Harris have openly talked about along with others like Elizabeth Warren, with the exception perhaps of defunding the police, which definitely seems to have been a strong message from other progressives. The message you suggest would probably be a lot more palatable to people if it weren’t crowded out by this stuff.
  - DangitBobby 5y ago
    I'm not at all saying that the latter half (police defining, tech regulation, gun control) are not part of the platform. I'm merely pointing out that the other things ("progressive policies such as free high-quality daycare, schools, health care for everybody") are definitely part of the platform. Though the healthcare reform feels conspicuously absent from the current agenda.
    - zepto 5y ago
      > Though the healthcare reform feels conspicuously absent from the current agenda. That leaves free daycare and some unspecified improvement to ‘schools’. I’m sure they are part of the platform and I’m sure they are trying to allocate money to some unspecified implementation, but those are pretty muted and low on the list it seems.