Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Ilhan Omar are the first self-described "democratic socialist" politicians who argue for the same policies found in Nordic and Western European countries. Besides, I am sure that as a historian you know that the Overton Window tends to shift to the left as certain changes are inevitable.
I have been a part of the fighting game community for almost two decades. The people in the FGC are generally very liberal. They advocate for policies that you have read about in this thread such as reparations, free college, and the abolishment of police and prisons. Some people even defended Black Lives Matter, the movement, not the slogan, and their Marxism for crying out loud. To claim that the writing in this thread is anything but far left is disingenuous when most people have already revealed their socialism and Marxism 30 or 40 pages ago.
In what magical fantasy land are Bernie Sanders or Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez demagogues like Trump or Tucker Carlson? Also, they are not even remotely close to the first self-described "democratic socialists" in the United States. Why don't you look up Eugene Debs and the Wobblies for starters? Why don't you look up Eisenhower's (not exactly a bleeding heart liberal) personal memos about how people who are against Social Security, such as the John Birch Society, are fools. If Eisenhower's policies were around the same way today, he would be considered a screaming liberal. Omar has admittedly said some dumb things but nothing near scumbags like Steve King.
You just undercut your own argument. You just admitted that these ideas are mainstream in Nordic and Western European countries. You know what else? They used to be mainstream in the United States. The Overton Window has severely shifted to the right in America since the election of Reagan. To call Bernie Sanders far left, when his policies simply translate to the same policies as FDR's New Deal is ridiculous. I just told you about Eisenhower. Also, you keep equating democratic socialism with communism. Not the same things buddy. ANOTHER LOGICAL FALLACY of False Equivalance. Yet another obvious instance of you repeating talking points from some right-wing loser's youtube page, probaby Dave Rubin or Ben Shapiro. By the way, I do watch a lot of the right wingers on the internet and read their magazines. It's part of my education to get a better understanding of how to construct history. The arguments are typically fallacious and ahistorical. Truly far left ideas would be well to the left of the New Deal like Leninism, which I am against.
To give you a little more history of politics in the US, look up the 1971 Powell Memorandum. All of the ridiculous right-wing think tanks that exist today have their origins in the ideas of the Powell Memo. The whole goal was to undue the New Deal and deregulate everything. It was called the "Excess of Democracy." It was a blueprint for elite businessmen and corporations to undermine the New Deal and take power aware from the movements in the 60s. I guarantee you most of the goofs you quote and read have their origins and funding from this era of history. The Koch brothers, Murdoch and other like them, who fund dipshits like Rubin, Shapiro, Hannity, Carlson, Fox News, Breitbart and others have their funding origins in the Powell Memo ideas.
I have been playing fighting games for three decades. I am old enough to have played the Original Street Fighter in the arcade. The FGC is liberal but not a bunch of far-left crazies like the Weather Underground or something.
Lastly, here is a list of socialist programs and government institutions that seem to work fine last time I checked.
1. Social Security, 2. Medicare, 3. Medicaid, 4. All branches of the armed forces, 5. State Colleges, 6. The Interstate Highway System, 7. All fire departments and police departments (although police departments may be an obvious exception), 8. the Postal Service (unless Trump has his way), 9. the Internet, (The internet has its origins in the tax-funded government program that created it), 10. the Computer (the computer started as a government program as well), 11. NASA and the Space program (all of the modern conveniences such as cell phones and personal computers have their origins in the space program because the goal was to make computers small enough to fit on the Apollo and other space shuttles). I could go on.
But hey, socialism doesn't work at all right?
You want unfettered "free-markets" (there is no such thing in reality) where oligarchs run the show with no regulation? Just look at the Gilded Age in the US. Better yet, Russia is run by oligarchs. Last time I checked, Russia is not exactly super-fun happy land.
Once again, you dodged the original comments about politics in sports. Yawn.
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