What Sanders Calls Himself: A democratic socialist. He defines this as using government power to reduce extreme income inequality, guarantee universal healthcare, and remove the influence of money in politics, drawing inspiration from Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and European welfare states.
What Policy Experts See: A social democrat. His legislative goals focus on reforming capitalism rather than replacing it. He campaigns on strengthening the social safety net, raising taxes on the wealthy, expanding labor rights, and providing universal public programsâall hallmarks of Nordic-style social democracyâwhile leaving private enterprise and market economies intact.
Once again, old school Dems, like Carville, are fighting AGAINST something... not much being said on fighting FOR something.
â and then go on to lose the general election.â
Except that is not their real fear. Their real fear is that the left will go on to *win* the general election, and, like Mamdani in NYC, prove that the left can govern. They are willing to throw the general election to Republicans by smearing the left and dividing and demoralizing the Dem base to avoid that outcome.
How do we know they are willing gamble in this way? Because that's how Trump won the first time.
I live in Colorado and find it to be a state that has mostly balanced the issues of entitlement, environment etc programs, with reasonable taxation.
Colorado is constitutionally required to pass a balanced budget and when the state generates a surplus, it is redistributed to taxpayers (a common occurrence over the past ten years).
New progressives are proposing an aggressive and progressive tax rate up to 8.4%, with rates/income levels not indexed to inflation (current tax is flat 4.4%)
Sure, there are things that need more funding, mostly medicaid/healthcare related, but...
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, who canât run for re-election this year, has said a graduated income tax would be âabsolutely devastatingâ to Coloradoâs economy.
and then there is congressional candidate Melat Kiros, who cant even admonish a gunmen who shot jewish people in boulder last year.
