This is my repost of my previous post here. My question WASN’T actually clear enough, so I had to add “United States presidential” to the title. That said, I’ll start by saying I’d vote for Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear.

    • Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      No. To my knowledge, putting the means of production into the hands of the people was never a majority opinion. And democracy is important.

      However, there are many social democratic policies that I believe have very broad support, and that still aren’t being implemented:

      • Universal healthcare (e.g. through mandatory insurance with central price negotiations)
      • Ban on pharmaceutical rebates
      • Universal free preschool
      • Free school lunch
      • Incentivising local governments to zone more medium density housing.

      Then there are other policies that I think would be really good for the US, but I am not sure the support is bipartisan:

      • Tighter control on monopolies
      • Unlimited sick days with a doctor’s note
      • Minimum vacation days
      • Raising minimum wage and implementing an automatic inflation adjustment
      • Maximum weekly work hours
      • Banning false self-employment
      • Union protections
      • Parental leave
      • Free college admission

      The latter category is also where I would place steps towards market socialism. For example federal laws that allow worker cooperatives (currently only some states allow them). And potentially even lowering the tax on worker co-ops compared to conventional companies.

      What’s your opinion on those questions?