Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for?

• Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No. To my knowledge, putting the means of production into the hands of the people was never a majority opinion. And democracy is important.

  However, there are many social democratic policies that I believe have very broad support, and that still aren’t being implemented:

  • Universal healthcare (e.g. through mandatory insurance with central price negotiations)
  • Ban on pharmaceutical rebates
  • Universal free preschool
  • Free school lunch
  • Incentivising local governments to zone more medium density housing.

  Then there are other policies that I think would be really good for the US, but I am not sure the support is bipartisan:

  • Tighter control on monopolies
  • Unlimited sick days with a doctor’s note
  • Minimum vacation days
  • Raising minimum wage and implementing an automatic inflation adjustment
  • Maximum weekly work hours
  • Banning false self-employment
  • Union protections
  • Parental leave
  • Free college admission

  The latter category is also where I would place steps towards market socialism. For example federal laws that allow worker cooperatives (currently only some states allow them). And potentially even lowering the tax on worker co-ops compared to conventional companies.

  What’s your opinion on those questions?

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