These demands have to, and can, be made in a way that's direct and easily understood. Single-payer is simpler to explain than Obamacare because single-payer isn't hiding conflicting popular and profit interests. Sure, there will be fights over how to pay for them, and those fights will be opportunities to learn about and dispel economic myths (including the myth that taxes pay for government programs, but that's another story). These measures do not add up to socialism, but they will move toward a socialist reorganization of society, and should be promoted frankly as such.
Yes, it is time for affirmative action for the entire working class, and that is socialism.
Tell me how impossible all this is, how the entire ruling class and establishment media will mobilize against it. You mean like how impossible it was for Donald Trump to become President?
Here's the first lesson everyone on the left should learn from Donald Trump: All these formidable establishment powers are not as omnipotent as they have fooled us into thinking they are. If you have a movement and a leadership which actually, forthrightly, fights for the things that will improve the lives of everyone except the top 10%, and mobilizes the bottom 90%, things suddenly become possible.
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