https://twitter.com/the_vello/status/1321435262023536641

Feels like (the good parts of) old chapo again, drop an AOC post and go grab some lunch... come back and there are over 60 replies :)

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    What would that require

    I don't know what you mean here. Are we assuming we have that Congress or are we taking about how to get it?

    As for what would be next, at minimum we'd be looking at M4A, a greatly increased minimum wage, serious criminal justice reform, and a sea change in how we pay for higher education. None of that is farther left than Bernie's platform, and any one of those policies would mean an enormous improvement for hundreds of millions of people. We'd also likely see significant pro-union legislation, which would make further left progress easier.

    It's unbelievable to me that anyone can compare "your healthcare and college are now free" to "nothing will fundamentally change" and ask if there's a real difference.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        My point is that what you’re describing would take a mass organized movement of protests and activism bordering on insurrection to accomplish.

        The Bernie campaign didn't require anything this unprecedented. And just because it got kneecapped by the establishment doesn't mean they'll be able to pull that off every time against every candidate.

        And it would still leave the global south exploited

        We don't know what that type of government's foreign policy would be, and the risk of being no better than we currently are in that area is not a reason to write off all the other benefits that government would produce.

        democracy in the workplace a long ways away

        We'd be a lot closer to it than we are today. A union-friendly government would be a huge help, and many of those other policies (e.g., getting healthcare independent of your employer) would also increase worker power.