US elects a socialist > the man gets re-elected three times
Lesson learned: We must never get close to implementing social policies!
this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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FDR wasn't a socialist. He wasn't even a social democrat by any standard but US-brain rot.
Government providing jobs to the unemployed, minimum wage, labor laws, social security... Blocked by the Republicans and a bunch of red Democrats when he wanted to do more...
I'm saying he's a socialist as he was in favour of government intervention to help the population, he wasn't a communist and might have been a social-liberal, it's still on the socialist spectrum.
Socialism is when the government does stuff after all
When it does stuff like create social programs? Yeah.
That explains the most socialist institution to ever exist, the American military industrial complex. It's a job program!
wait this isnt Jackson hinkle
There is a lot of damage to industrialization hopes. Tariffs on metals, lumber, gypsum hurts building and manufacturing. Energy (solar and batteries) tariffs not only means higher energy input costs for industry, it's yet another immediate cost of living increase for people, and an unsustainable planet is a worse cost of living increase/quality of life decrease.
There does seem to be an industrial policy to militarize AI, and monopolize data centers to US, through politicized investment funds, but they are not getting the quo pro their quid, and limiting the world to US controlled data centers is certain to make them prefer/wait for Chinese tech to catch up.
Retaliation, undermining, and boycotts is going to mean less production and less jobs and less income to afford consumption at higher prices. War on Universities doesn't help future. Forcing kids to replace immigrant labour instead of school focus is anti-future.
Well they want a future of control, even if it means giving up geopolitical hegemony
Biden was doing industrial policy to bring in manufacturing, so naturally Trump abandoned it.
(I wonder what the d-d-democrats bad people thought about the post before I said that. It's Republicans that don't want to.)