The conservatives are calling basic Progressive policies "Communist".

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• kestrel7_7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  These republicans are shouting themselves in the foot. When the most milquetoast reforms imaginable get called communism, it doesn’t make progressivism less popular, it just mashes communism sound good.

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• TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cap top-end wages by regulating a minimum wage that can be no less than 5% of the top pay in that company, (and calling out shell companies so we don’t get a situation where the CEOs’ are technically “managing consultants” to avoid this rule.)

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    During the 1950-60s (the best period for income inequality) CEO pay was ~30x the company average. If you want to key the limit to the company minimum as percentage of maximum, something between 1-2% would get you to a good place.

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• DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These assholes wouldn't know communism if it walked right up and seized their means of production. Taking care of your own people just means you're doing a good job as a government.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    EXACTLY!

    All those things that the meme mentions are something that the government should be looking into regardless of what economy they institute!

    I’m paying $2,000 a month for a three bedroom that shouldn’t cost anywhere above $1100 a month!

    I went to home Depot last night bought some cockroach traps, Teflon tape a plunger and a short length of stainless steel tubing for $30. What’s up on tables 98 cents the plunger was $4 the box of cockroach traps was eight bucks and the length of tubing was $15! And none of the prices make any sense!

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Direct price controls like are generally a bad idea. Often, unintended consequences make the underlying problem worse.

  For drug prices, most are created with substantial government funded research. The government could leverage that into a major patent ownership stake, then immediately license the drug for generic production.

  For child care, the government could give a monthly stipend to all parents. Parents could then decide, use it for child care, or quit/cut hours to care for your kid yourself.

  I’m not sure about interest rate limits, that might work. But 10% is kinda low; Maybe someplace between 15-20%. And credit cards aren’t even the worst offenders. Pay day loans are much worse, with rates over 200% sometimes.

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• LuannePlatter@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If only Americans could read, they might learn to vote in their own interests

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  • Obituarykidney@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why do you think conservatives keep gutting education. And all the lowest ranking states for education vote red.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i believe even missispi or missouri was cooking the books when they said thier reading or writing was improving.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  as if Conservatives arnt the biggest welfare queens.

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    And drama queens.

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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This tweet is extremely funny if you’re aware of the fact that Richard Nixon also instituted price controls.

  Nixon is, indeed, too far left to be accepted by the modern RNC.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Call progressives Communists and Marxosts started with Hitler. Even after the war it was carried on by Fascists. From Wikipedia:

  Origins

  The phrase “cultural Marxism” to mean a cultural attack from the left aimed at destroying society and installing Marxism/Bolshevism can be traced back to the 1930s, appearing in the 1938 July-September volume of “British Union Quarterly”, the journal of The British Union of Fascists.[11][12] The short essay claims the source of cultural Marxism is the “deracinated” nature of “city-dwelling”, and the “indiscriminate toleration-psychosis of liberalism, inherent in Social-Democracy”.[11][13]

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• MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is obviously not communism… But also, just because it has large support doesn’t automatically make it not-communism

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Those percentages mean that a lot of people want it, but vote against it. This is something that I will never understand

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