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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    3 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?