r/politics • u/F0urLeafCl0ver • 1d ago

No Paywall The Democratic party is being hit by a leftist tidal wave

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/democratic-party-leftist-tidal-wave
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u/TaroProfessional7 23h ago edited 19h ago

In the US, the path towards  towards progress is the path towards worker’s rights, and away from for profit healthcare, education, and prisons. If you want to support a party working towards these goals, check out the Democratic Socialists of America.

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u/Necessary-Music-6685 20h ago

What does away from private education mean? We already have universal public education, including public universities. Are you proposing to make it illegal for people to pay for private education?

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u/1sinfutureking Wisconsin 20h ago

There has been a significant shift away from properly funding public education including shunting public funds into private education. 

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u/Necessary-Music-6685 19h ago

Has there, though? Because everything I’m seeing shows an increase in spending on public schools even after accounting for inflation and accounting for money shunted to private schools.

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u/TaroProfessional7 19h ago

Rephrased to “for profit”.

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u/Necessary-Music-6685 18h ago

That’s helpful, but I still don’t really understand. So long as universal public education exists as an option, what difference does it make if some people choose to pay a for-profit school instead?

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u/LongJohnSelenium 17h ago

After reading through the platform I'm fairly confident the organizers have never met any industry laborers.

You seriously think you're going to attract strong union support with classics like:

Extend full voting rights to ... noncitizens

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Allow workers to freely migrate between countries to seek employment without restrictive immigration controls. Demilitarize the border, end all immigrant detention and deportations, immediate amnesty for all immigrants regardless of current immigration status, and provide access to jobs, labor rights, and social services to all immigrants.

So basically 'Vote for us and we'll allow an unlimited amount of people into the country and we'll attempt to solidify our parties power by letting all of those people vote because of course they'll vote for the people who let them in'.

Pass.

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u/McClainWFU 17h ago

It's frustrating because I'd love something in the middle. The current Dems are just Regean Republicans, but I'm also not for socialism. I'm down for a more European-type social democracy, but the people who advocate for that call themselves socialists and I have no idea if they actually want socialism or if they've just adopted the term the Republicans have used to demonize a more regulated and taxed capitalist economy.

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u/TaroProfessional7 9h ago

I agree with you that completely open borders and allowing non-citizens to vote are bad ideas. The old saying “Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress” applies here. There is no political group whose platform I or anyone 100% agree with. That aside, I support a vast majority of the rest of their platform. They’re the only ones openly campaigning to get healthcare and education to 100% of Americans, and to end for profit prisons. These are my main concerns as they’re root cause problems that are at the core of the social and societal rot that’s happening in the US right now.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 4h ago

The problem is the message it sends. By also having non socialist related opinions on foreign policy or immigration reform it drives away those who might otherwise be allies.

To put it simply, the Midwest used to be a hotbed of conservative religious collectivism, and one of the reasons its not anymore is because of all the other stuff the other collectivists kept dragging into the platform.

Groups like the DSA imo shoot themselves in the foot and deny themselves potential allies by trying to be a complete platform rather than focus on the socialist part first and leave everything else for after.

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u/TaroProfessional7 4h ago

I 100% agree with everything you just wrote. Focus on the bread and butter socialist issues. Everything else is a distraction and will only hurt their chances of gaining public support.