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I dont believe young people will get any happier. I think people in their 20s are relatively so broke and hopeless, and not amazed by almost anything because of prior exposure with the internet, that the mid-life crisis will just become a horribly unhappy time.

If you would like to see how Democratic Socialists define themselves:

Democratic socialism is a political ideology that advocates for a democratic political system alongside a socially-owned or controlled economy, where the means of production are managed by the public or workers to meet social needs rather than private profit. It seeks to combine the principles of democracy, such as individual freedoms and multi-party elections, with a fundamental transformation of the economy.

Core Principles

Political Democracy: Upholds civil liberties, freedom of speech and assembly, and free elections within a multi-party system.

Economic Democracy/Social Ownership: Believes the economy should be democratically run. This can take various forms, including public utilities, government-owned industries, or worker-managed cooperatives, to ensure resources benefit the community as a whole.

Social Welfare: Strongly supports robust social safety nets and universal access to essential services like healthcare and education, funded through progressive taxation.

Reduced Inequality: Aims to significantly minimize wealth disparity and ensure a basic standard of living for all citizens.

Feature Democratic Socialism:

Economic Goal Seeks a systemic transformation to replace capitalism with a post-capitalist socialist economy. Works within a reformed capitalist framework, aiming to mitigate its negative effects through regulation and a strong welfare state.

View of Capitalism Critical of capitalism, seeing it as inherently incompatible with true freedom and equality in the long term. Accepts a mixed-market economy, using government intervention to protect consumers and establish social programs.

Examples of Policies and Figures

Universal healthcare

Free tuition at public colleges

Strong labor unions and workers' rights

Aggressive climate action and public investment in renewable energy

Increased taxes on the wealthy and corporations

This is a comment I read on a forum from the man-o-sphere.

This is a comment I read on a forum from the man-o-sphere.

Trump would like to remain in office after 2028

This is why Trump wanted to shut down Gov't and not allow 218th vote to release files. Swear in the lady elected in Arizona and release the files.

I have never seen a swing like that in just one year. Trump approval rating is now 37% and the voting Tuesday showed how accurate the polls are.

He has not delivered on promises and actually done things he said he wouldn't.

Some guy who posted about the new NYC mayor just blocked me because I did not agree with his opinion. I think it's a sign of insecurity. What do you think?

“The interesting thing to me about that election too is that, if you believe the exit polls, the majority of the people who actually voted for Mamdani in the New York mayoral race were young women… now ladies, we have work to do because unfortunately, the democrats think that we are susceptible to all of their crazy ideology and we gotta turn that around. We gotta bring the ladies over to the conservative side of the aisle and show them that God is where it’s at, family is where it’s at, having kids is where it’s at, and as my husband pointed out earlier, you can have that all and a career. We have to start doing better with speaking to everyone out there including young women around this country but the thing with that race that scares me is that that is the beginning and that is the new face of the Democrat party if you think they’re going to stop at New York you are kidding yourself. It will be all over the United States of America which is why we are going to have to fight even harder going forward from here on out because we we cannot let this happen ever again in the United States.” - Lara Trump

Do you think they can succeed in converting young women to conservatism?

Presuming Trump admin threats to close up to 40% of our airspace they can't cover are accurate, I wouldn't wanna be ANYWHERE NEAR THAT 💣 when it goes off 💥

I think every incumbent of both parties would have a target 🎯 on their back if so...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y08.Dy9M.ZdMazry8agHP&smid=nytcore-android-share

The key question for the justices on Wednesday was whether the president exceeded his authority when he used the 1977 emergency statute. Past presidents have relied on the law to impose sanctions or embargoes on other countries, but Mr. Trump is the first to use it to impose tariffs.

The conservative majority speakers suggested the administration’s position could represent an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the executive branch that would be difficult for Congress to reclaim. Justice Gorsuch warned of “a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives” in Congress.

The justices grappled with a doctrine favored by the conservative legal movement. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority repeatedly relied on the “major questions doctrine” to invalidate many of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s key initiatives, including his student loan forgiveness program. The doctrine says presidential initiatives with “vast economic or political significance” must be clearly authorized by Congress.

The Trump administration has proposed or issued tariffs that cover roughly a third of U. S. imports under a nonemergency provision related to national security.

If the justices were to rule against Mr. Trump, the administration says it would be forced to unwind trade deals with other countries. The government might also have to pay billions in refunds to importers.The result could lead to economic ruin akin to the Great Depression. "It’s simply implausible” that Congress had “handed the president the power to overhaul the entire tariff system and the American economy in the process, allowing him to set and reset tariffs on any and every product from any and every country, at any and all times.”