@boricuamm707 Well thanks for asking XD. No not exactly. What's basically going on is that the social democratic parties (+/- like progressives) have lost a narrative of their own after the fall of the wall in 1989 when many SDP's decided to stop being really left-wing, that is only 1 factor but I think an important one. What also happened was the steady increase of immigrants & the idea that we've failed to integrate them in society. Among other things that gave the momentum for right-wing
@TheRacistsMustDie Wow apart from the wall falling down, it sounds similar to the US. With the Liberal parties not being liberal and for us illegal immigrants constantly coming in.
@boricuamm707 Yeah but you've also go the erosion of good journalism by wrecking public broadcasting. I don't think that's a European phenomenon, although we in the Netherlands are cutting on public broadcasting & Berlusconi in Italy has a firm grip on media. But it could very well be that Silvio is done for & Italy is a bit of a special case. What I said is more specifically the case in Western Europe.
@boricuamm707 populist parties to really make a breakthrough. Now the populists themselves only chop down a specific part of what we have, but we have parliamentary systems so the coalitions formed will be with right-wing parties that will do just that.
Al, I love ya, but we're not "losing the argument" on programs like Medicare and Social Security, at least not with the American people. Preserving those programs as is polls consistently at 75% and higher. We're losing the argument in Washington precisely because Democrats won't just repeat that over and over, and they instead give in to the Republican framing of cut cut cut.
End collective bargaining? How do you Americans want to maintain a healthy society without that? That's like going straight back to the 19th century.
TheRacistsMustDie 8 months ago
@TheRacistsMustDie Our system is 100% corrupted, from the politicians to the TV media.
boricuamm707 8 months ago
@boricuamm707 & I think it's slowly coming to Europe too. Feel free to ask why.
TheRacistsMustDie 8 months ago
@TheRacistsMustDie lol why? American's right wing nut ideology is spreading?
boricuamm707 8 months ago
@boricuamm707 Well thanks for asking XD. No not exactly. What's basically going on is that the social democratic parties (+/- like progressives) have lost a narrative of their own after the fall of the wall in 1989 when many SDP's decided to stop being really left-wing, that is only 1 factor but I think an important one. What also happened was the steady increase of immigrants & the idea that we've failed to integrate them in society. Among other things that gave the momentum for right-wing
TheRacistsMustDie 8 months ago
@TheRacistsMustDie Wow apart from the wall falling down, it sounds similar to the US. With the Liberal parties not being liberal and for us illegal immigrants constantly coming in.
boricuamm707 8 months ago
@boricuamm707 Yeah but you've also go the erosion of good journalism by wrecking public broadcasting. I don't think that's a European phenomenon, although we in the Netherlands are cutting on public broadcasting & Berlusconi in Italy has a firm grip on media. But it could very well be that Silvio is done for & Italy is a bit of a special case. What I said is more specifically the case in Western Europe.
TheRacistsMustDie 8 months ago
@boricuamm707 populist parties to really make a breakthrough. Now the populists themselves only chop down a specific part of what we have, but we have parliamentary systems so the coalitions formed will be with right-wing parties that will do just that.
TheRacistsMustDie 8 months ago
Al Franken for president. Not jus in the US, but the world as well.
Elaineduf 8 months ago
@Elaineduf I'm sure the globalist would love that.
rightsman123 8 months ago
Why has not Jeremy Ryan spoken at Netroots?
dael4 8 months ago
Hempsters: Plant the Seed, ITS TIME for industrial HEMP revolution. Gandhis and the cloth, americans and hemp let's roll
dael4 8 months ago
Al, I love ya, but we're not "losing the argument" on programs like Medicare and Social Security, at least not with the American people. Preserving those programs as is polls consistently at 75% and higher. We're losing the argument in Washington precisely because Democrats won't just repeat that over and over, and they instead give in to the Republican framing of cut cut cut.
velocity679 8 months ago
Speak it Al...speak it!!!
Elbimon 8 months ago