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- Medicare for all

- Universal childcare

- Free public college

- Massive investment in clean energy and affordable housing

- A wealth tax on multimillionaires and billionaires

- A $20 or $25 minimum wage (phased in over 5 years for large employers and 12 years for small employers and then chained to two thirds the median national wage)

Are these ideas too radical and too far left? Or are they appropriately bold given the cost of living crisis? Would Democratic Party candidates that support these ideas be more or less likely to get your vote?

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Should Democrats be messaging like this:

- Affordable healthcare

- Affordable housing and utilities

- Affordable childcare and college

Or like this:

- Universal healthcare/medicare for all

- Housing for all

- Universal childcare and college for all

Or maybe a hybrid approach:

- Affordable healthcare for all

- Affordable housing for all

- Affordable childcare for all

- Affordable college for all

- Talk about "affordable and universal" healthcare/housing/childcare/college

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It seems like the consensus is that public housing is probably DOA, so what policy should US progressives be advocating? Zoning reform and subsidies/vouchers for affordable housing?

Instead of medicare for all, universal childcare, free public college, green new deal they could frame it as "affordable healthcare/childcare/college for all" and "clean energy jobs program".

I have noticed progressives have put less emphasis on free public college and the green new deal in recent years, though.

I've also noticed that progressives generally don't really mention a $20 or $25 minimum wage but instead just say we need to raise the minimum wage to a livable wage, which is probably smart.

Also I never really hear progressives here talk about public housing. Instead they just talk about the need to build more affordable housing which, again, is probably smart politically.

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These are the economic issues I hear progressive politicians in the US talk about most:

- Medicare for all

- Universal childcare

- Strong union rights

- Livable minimum wage

- Paid leave

- Higher taxes on the rich

- Wealth tax on the super rich

- Free public college (less emphasis lately)

- Green new deal (less emphasis lately)

Economic issues I don't hear them talking about much:

- Public housing (all I really hear is "we need to build more affordable housing")

- Public utilities

- Sectoral bargaining

- 32 hour work week (though Sanders talks about this sometimes)

- Incentives for worker co-ops

- Worker representation on corporate boards (I think Sanders and Warren have both proposed this but I rarely hear it discussed)

- High speed rail

I'm just wondering why I rarely hear these issues discussed even on the progressive left. Are there legitimate problems with them, or are they just less politically viable? Or are progressive dems just picking their battles and prioritizing what they see as most important?

I'll admit to having a bit of a soft spot for Joe Biden given that he was the probably the most pro-union President the US has ever had and his administration was pretty strong on antitrust enforcement. Also I appreciated his accomplishments on COVID relief, infrastructure, clean energy, US manufacturing, drug pricing reform, etc. But obviously his strong support for Israel as they committed genocide considerably soured him on me.

I really like the anti-corruption messaging I've been seeing from Jon Ossoff. Ossoff also doesn't take any corporate money.

JB Pritzker, despite being a billionaire and former AIPAC board member, has done lots of good for Illinois in terms of progressive policy.

Andy Beshear is a moderate who doesn't back down from his progressive principles on issues like women's rights and LGBTQ rights which I really appreciate in a deep red state.

Mark Kelly, like Joe Biden, I think is tough to dislike on a personal level although his voting record and votes on Trump nominees leave a lot to be desired. He also refuses corporate money.

I have plenty of disagreements with Gavin Newsom, but he has solid accomplishments on important issues like healthcare, education, labor, and the environment. I also appreciate his strong opposition to Trump.

Pete Buttigieg is a really strong communicator and seems especially strong on voting rights/corruption issues.

Harris and Booker have/had surprisingly progressive voting records in the Senate. On certain issues they're definitely to the left of the average dem politician.

Josh Shapiro, like Pete Buttigieg, is good at framing left leaning ideas and principles in a way that sounds common sense and moderate. While he's far more moderate than me, I think he's a decent Governor for Pennsylvania.

(Not to say I like their politics overall but I can find things to appreciate)

- Medicare for all

- Free public college and trade school

- Universal childcare

- Large-scale clean energy jobs program

- Build millions of units of affordable public housing

- Public utilities

- $25 minimum wage

- Strong union rights

- Sectoral bargaining

- Incentivize worker co-ops

- 32 hour work week

- Worker representation on corporate boards

- High speed rail

- Paid medical leave, family leave, and vacation time

- Expand social security

- Raise taxes on corporations and the rich

- Put a wealth tax on the super wealthy

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- $15 minimum wage

- Strengthen union rights

- Paid medical and family leave

- Universal pre-K and childcare

- Expand child tax credit and earned income tax credit

- Raise taxes on corporations and the rich

- Expand the ACA and Medicaid

- Lower prescription drug costs

- Clean energy investment

- Stronger environmental protections

- Path to citizenship for undocumented

- Border security investment

- Reform immigration enforcement

- Codify abortion rights

- Universal background checks

- Assault weapons ban

- Red flag laws

- Safe storage laws

- Restore VRA

- Ban partisan gerrymandering

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