I find it very telling that lately, whenever these democratic socialists or socialists policies come up, the right-wing’s response is to say, “But what about Venezuela!?” Sometimes that’s literally their only response, the only thing they can come up with as an attempt at a rejoinder. To which the obvious response in turn is, “But what about the rest of the developed world?”
There’s also the opposite; I was reading about the positive economic indicators in the US right now - everyone is spending more money, including the poor and middle class. People think things are going well, economically. Yet wages haven’t gone up. At all. So where’s the money coming from? Savings and debt, it turns out. If those people don’t foresee the bubble bursting and realize how precarious their lives are, they will soon.
