Okay, great. Most Americans are in favor of addressing global warming and making our economy more green. The only people who speak out against it are conservative politicians in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry.
Far left is in favor of single payer/universal healthcare, wants to protect social security and is not real gung ho on our military mission around the world.
Most analysts I've seen agree our military budget is way to big and the Pentagon needs to audited.
The only problem the far left has is all these radical shifts at some point will require raising someone's taxes.
AOC and Elizabeth Warren have proposed some creative ideas on raising a 2-3% tax on the assets of rich people.
I agree that progressives are going to have to be careful which issues they run on because the Republicans are going to attack them saying the left just wants to raise your taxes and increase the size of government, never addressing what that tax increase is for.
For right now, I think progressives should talk about fixing and expanding the ACA, raising the minimum wage and infrastructure programs.
If Warren wins and gets the House and Senate, she should go for it, do everything she wants and pull an FDR.
If the Dem's 2020 candidate tries to take too a bite it might spook some voters.
Part of me thinks it doesn't matter because the Dems have way more voters, Trump is loathed and Dems are starting to win elections again by running as...progressives/lefties.
So many midterm candidates ran as hardline progressives and nearly pulled off huge upsets.
Gillum in Florida ran as a down the line progressive and came real damn close to being governor.
Similar thing happened to the Black female gubernatorial candidate in Georgia.
There's a left leaning shift happening in this country, the Dems just need to manage it and make it work.
. That’ll do it.
