What Republicans call “far left” policies like universal healthcare and free college tuition are considered middle of the road mainstream positions in most of Europe. How tragic that people have been convinced that they deserve so little by the very people who are taking so much.

Dec 7, 2020 · 4:35 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Which is why all the European immigrants I know and talk to are for Trump & American opportunity. They fled all the European “goodness” & are begging America to not go down that path.
Replying to @marwilliamson @TGhiglino
Your average European possesses a higher level of critical thinking skills than your average American
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It’s not just Republicans. Democrats are just as owned, just as bad.
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And people to this day believes if they "work hard enough" they will achieve the American dream. People are now working longer, getting sicker and still not getting better but this mindset has been knocked in to folks heads for far too long. We deserve better
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Replying to @marwilliamson @GregCipes
Most of these things (free college, glass steagall, fairness doctrine) we've already successfully had in this country, too. Only universal healthcare we haven't, but all our peer countries have had for decades. We deserve policies for the people.
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It's easy for Europe to do such things when they have someone like the US to foot the bill in things like R&D.
Replying to @marwilliamson @Aine
Sociopaths, baby. They run this place.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Because the Gov't is basically a group of fascists now. Fascist being socialists for the wealthy. They fund the wealthy to thrive in an economic system that is broken. They will not take resources from the wealthy because the Gov't is bribed by the wealthy.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
It's not that they think they deserve so little. It's that they don't want to pay for anyone else. Goes along with their hatred of wearing masks... it requires caring about other people & they are children, imprisoned in the, "My sports team hates your sports team" mentality.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Why not advocate UBI *instead of* college tuition so that everybody gets to invest in themselves rather than a) only those who go to college and b) many extra people going to college who would be perhaps better serves through other forms of self-development/learning/training?
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