Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Now I want to vote for her even harder.
Seriously, is this supposed to be deterring people? Who looks at any of those and thinks they’re a bad thing, except for oil executives, corporate investors, landlords and the ultra-rich?
Remember that time when Fox News popped up a list of AOC’s goals, then realized that their viewers might actually be in favor of them and took it down.
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Wants to continue democracy and peaceful transfer of power
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Consistently demonstrates adequate mental health
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Respects religious diversity
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Has stable and data-driven policy stances
tax-funded Medicare-for-all
Is there another way to do it, or do they just want to add a scary word?
Comservatives hate taxes. They complain that the left is entitled and then bitch and moan when they have to actually pay their share for the services they use. Nothing will get them more fired up than hating on taxes even if you show them just how vile and expensive the private version is.
“I earned that money(all by myself and at no point did I use any tax-funded infrastructure no not me not never).”
Don’t tell them about school vouchers. They’ll never understand how that is funded.
A libertarian “sovereign citizen” is absolutely peak conservative entitlement. “I should have all the benefits of society while putting nothing that I don’t feel like back in.”
Single payer Medicare for all I think has been an idea considered to get us incrementally closer to a publicly funded option for all like federal employees like senators and reps currently have. If it’s good enough for those citizens it should be good enough for all citizens, but getting there has been awful because oligarchs won’t fund a campaign based on real public healthcare reform and political parties dump candidates who don’t get money.
Imagine thinking these are bad things…
These things are all legitimately good for humanity and … life. Are Republicans literally ghouls?
Republicans in office: YES, they absolutely are!
Republican voters: For some YES! but also there’s a fuckton of propaganda aimed at them like… (checks notes) Newsmax for one… They’re manipulated into believing these are bad things :/
First of all, screw Trump and J.D. Vance, their policies are awful. There’s no way they’re earning my vote, so it’s either going to be Harris (who I very much disagree with) or a third party protest vote. I’ll be watching the campaign to decide which it’s going to be, though my vote doesn’t really matter because my state is most likely going to Trump by 20%+ spread unless there are more anti-vaxxers than I thought in my state.
That said, I disagree with most of those policies, but I don’t think they’re things that should scare you from voting for her, I just think they’re bad policies. For example:
corporate tax
Corporations aren’t people, they’re legal structures made up of people. Instead of raising the corporate tax, I think we should be taxing people, not entities.
The intent here is to target wealthy people, so we should instead tax stock options at fair market value immediately upon issue, with perhaps an exemption on the first $20k or so of stock options (or perhaps to non-highly compensated employees) or if it is deposited directly into a workplace retirement account (but it would count toward the max). That would target one of the major ways the super-wealthy avoid taxes. A high corporate tax just encourages more creative accounting (e.g. here’s how Amazon dodged taxes years ago).
capping rent and utility payments
Landlords will just find other ways to get money from you, or they’ll skimp on maintenance. Or we’ll run into the problem San Francisco has with tons of vacancies despite tons of demand, which I’m convinced is because of their rent controls and renter-friendly policies (why give up your lease if you have a really good rate? Just keep paying in case you want to move back…).
Utilities will just provide a crappier service if they’re not making enough profit. Instead of that, we should cap utility company profits and require utility companies to have a discounted rate that poorer people can apply for (I’m pretty sure both already exist, they do in my area).
medicare for all
This could be okay, depending on the formulation. We certainly need to change something about our healthcare system. My preference is to force care providers to be more transparent in their pricing, separate health insurance from employers, limit patents, and have strict caps on profits for any pharmaceutical or medical device that was partially funded w/ taxpayer dollars.
I don’t know if that would solve it, and I think it’s impractical to actually get those passed, so I’m not necessarily opposed to expanding Medicare. But I don’t think it’s the panacea politicians make it out to be.
investigated fossil fuel companies
Yeah, do more of that! There’s a lot of corruption in that industry, and we need to air it out.
I’m begging you not to make that protest vote given Project 2025 is on the agenda.
if you had a billion dollars in your bank you might think they’re coming for you somehow.
