Will We Ever Live In Bernie Sanders' America?
It’s worth pausing and considering what Sen. Bernie Sanders envisioned for America in its totality.
Every single American’s health insurance would be sponsored by the government, and companies like Cigna or Blue Cross Blue Shield would essentially be cut out of the health care business. Prescription costs would be limited to $200 a year.
Having a baby would come with six months of paid parental leave, guaranteed. Public day care, public preschool and public colleges and universities would all be tuition-free. Every public school teacher would make at least $60,000 a year. Student debt would be gone. So would medical debt. Credit reports wouldn’t cost a penny, the government would just do it for you. The post office could be your bank.
The minimum wage would be $15 an hour. Your boss couldn’t just fire you for no reason because “at-will” employment would be outlawed. Twenty percent of the country’s labor force would be in a union, and unions in the same industry could bargain together. Large companies would all come under partial employee ownership. Workers would control nearly half the seats on corporate boards.
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I merely responded to your point that Americans are conservative;
All I responded to was the underlined assertion, that's all.
As far as the rest of what you wrote just above is concerned, and I don't mean to speak as if you aren't aware, but what you describe IS NOT the default; It happened by deliberate design.
I've read historical perspectives that suggest the conservative "powers that be" so to speak, have known since at least the 60's, and even back to the days of FDR, that Americans, given the free ability to do so, will elect progressive, forward thinking, socially liberal people to office. There are exceptions, of course. There are certain jurisdictions where labeling yourself a "Liberal" is tantamount to political suicide, but what I wrote in the post above still stands, according to most of the polls on the subject I have read about.
Hell, the last time The American people had a viable (what would now be called) Social Democrat run for the presidency, they elected him FOUR FUCKING TIMES! And had he lived, it would have been five, at least. The conservative political machine recognized this trend way back then and THEY forced through the 22nd Amendment because they knew that the people liked what FDR did for the average Joe, and in spite of many of the distasteful things FDR did (Internment of the Japanese Americans, for instance), he was adored by Americans.
Edit: And we just can't have that, now can we?
I understand what you are saying, regarding the way things are, but you must know that this is a result of a concerted effort, going back decades, of the Conservative establishment to rig the system in their favor.
There is absolutely NOTHING stopping liberals and progressives from doing the same thing.
Democrats just stood by and watched while a minority opinion took over the American Political Landscape. They have systematically demonized Unions, they have belittled the skilled worker on one hand, and give false praise on the other, they say they love the family and are all about "family values", but their economic ideology and policies make it increasingly more expensive to actually have one, etc. etc.
To suggest that nothing will ever change, that we can't do that same sort of thing, suggests that Democrats can not play the same game Republicans have been playing for a long time.
I simply say bullshit.
It might look like nothing will change right here and now, but it doesn't have to be that way. We need to do what they did, and start at the local level, beginning with School Boards. Imagine what this country would be like in 30 years if we were able to have an education system like Sweden has for instance, that teaches children independent, critical thinking skills instead of shoving the bullshit "America is the greatest ever" bullshit propaganda and/or the fucking bible down their throats from birth.
This country is the way it is because the system we currently have is extremely profitable for a very small group of people, it always has been, and they have a vested interest in keeping it that way, full stop. But they are by no means unbeatable.
It all reminds me of this graphic, and the sooner the American people get it, the sooner will will evolve toward that elusive "More Perfect Union";
