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Even amongst the left, the narrative of the welfare queen is strong. Eliminating means testing is so easily attacked that it is a challenging policy to propose.
by UncleMeat 4y ago
Even amongst the left, the narrative of the welfare queen is strong. Eliminating means testing is so easily attacked that it is a challenging policy to propose.
This isn't to let the Democrats off the hook, only to explain that Democratic voters are not uniformly behind improving these policies.
- danielheath 4y agoBy the standards of the rest of the world, the US Democrats are centre-right and American politics have no left. It’s really astonishing how different the Overton window is (and concerning how much my home country is importing US politics.
- guerrilla 4y agoBy a European standard they're not even center-right.
- guerrilla 4y agoYeah, the Democrats are right wing. You're confounding left and Democrats.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoThe overton window has shifted so far right that some people think Biden is a socialist.
- krapp 4y agoThe Overton window as already there when people were calling Obama, of all people, a Marxist.