Tag: Liberalism

Peak Liberalism

Peak liberalism is taking the left’s idea from 2008 for $15/hr when minimum wage was $7.25, chewing on it for a decade, and passing a law for $15/hr by 2025 when $15 will be equivalent to $7.25 in 2008.

Then congratulate yourselves for it. Democratic Party in a nutshell.

Peak liberalism is taking the left’s idea from 2008 for $15/hr when minimum wage was $7.25, chewing on it for a decade, and passing a law for $15/hr by 2025 when $15 will be equivalent to $7.25 in 2008.

Then congratulate yourselves for it. Democratic Party in a nutshell.

— Mass for Shut-ins (is a podcast) (@edburmila) July 19, 2019

Trump is a symptom

Liberals: yeah, I’ve heard your critique that “socialism will not rid us of Trump.” (Since you seem to need to remind me of it constantly, I’ve heard it a bunch.)

Here’s the problem with your criticism: Trump is a symptom.

If you don’t address the underlying problem – which modern American liberalism never does, and apparently never will – more Trumps (spread across the paper-thin US political divide) are inevitable.