But they are wrong about the solutions.
The working class in America is struggling. Decades of relative peace, an explosion in global trade, even entering an Age of Information and Technology; none of it has helped the working class as much as it should have.
Working-class families still have just as much trouble making it as they ever did. Whole families used to be able to survive on a single income. No more. Living paycheck to paycheck is a reality for millions of people in America. Millions more live on the povery line.
Or below it.
Americans are carrying massive amounts of debt. College is too expensive. Healthcare is too expensive. Millions of American families have no savings, and are one broken down car, one lost job, one injury or illness from homelessness.
Millions of Americans have no retirement savings to speak of. They are pinning their hopes on Social Security, a system which will, according to basic math, run out of money in another 10 years or so, unless someone does something.
If it lasts that long. Considering the government shutdown currently entering its second month, who knows what might happen.
Unlike their parents and grandparents, college grads in 2025 are worried that they will never be able to afford a house.
Identifying problems doesn’t mean you are qualified to fix them.
It’s much harder to offer solutions that will work for the majority of the working class.
Where have liberal Democrats, Democratic Socialists, demonstrated that they are capable of solving these problems?
Chicago voted out one liberal progressive mayor for one even further left. Things in Chicago today are worse than ever. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has one of the worst approval ratings in the country. Mayor Johnson is fond of pointing out how much Chicagoans hate Donald Trump.
They hate Mayor Johnson even more.
Under his rule, Chicago residents aren’t safer, wealthier, or happier with their government. Chicago public school students aren’t thriving, they aren’t passing standardized tests, anymore, either.
On the contrary.
Democratic Socialists like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani talk a good game about income inequality in America.
When have they ever delivered on anything?
Calforina politicians are as progressive as they come.
Entertainment industry workers are having trouble finding work in Hollywood these days. Many are complaining because they can no longer afford to live in California.
Welcome to the rest of the country.
Most families in the U.S. can’t afford the average $750,000 mortgage price tag to live in the Golden State and they don’t know anyone who can.
New Yorkers, not to mention voters in New Jersey and Virginia, would do well to stop listening to what the Democratic Socialists of America and far left progressive politicians say.
Watch what they do, instead.
Everyone agrees that it costs too much to live in the United States these days. Everything is more expensive. It’s unsustainable.
But Democratic Socialists are wrong about solutions. Far-left progressives are wrong about the solutions.
If they weren’t, California and NYC would be utopias, wouldn’t they?
Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. would be, too. Instead, California Governor Gavin Newsom is campaigning for president. He is making promises on things he can’t even deliver for his own state. California is a state with vast natural resources, fabulously wealthy industries, and spectacular weather.
And a far-left government that has been driving taxpayers and businesses out of the state at such a rate, California lost a Congressional seat during the last census.
Why should voters believe Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani, or Bernie Sanders when they can’t demonstrate a single success, anywhere in the country?
(Contributing writer, Brooke Bell)