jwmason.substack.com Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States
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Everything regarding social democracy as a political movement.
As described on wikipedia:
"Social democracy is a political, social and economic philosophy within socialism. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal-democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented mixed economy."
Social democracy is often confused with democratic socialism which is it's own thing.
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Social Democracy @lemmy.ml davel [he/him] @lemmy.ml While the title is a bit click-baity, from the perspective of many other existing bourgeois democracies it’s basically true.
A longstanding concern on the US electoral left is the issue of “candidate accountability” – if we elect a left-wing candidate, how can we be sure that he or she will stay true to our politics while in office? It’s a big problem. One solution regularly proposed is that the left needs to break with the Democrats and build a third party. Rather than continuing to run candidates on the Democratic ballot line, the left should create its own party; such a party could endorse only candidates fully vetted by and accountable to the party membership, and could discipline candidates–even revoke their party membership–if they moved right in office.
This is an appealing idea. Unfortunately, here in the United States, creating a formal political party which exerts this kind of control over candidates is illegal.
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Social Democracy @lemmy.ml ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ @lemmy.ml 
www.economist.com Eric Li on the failure of liberal democracy and the rise of China’s wayDemocracy comes in many forms. The West’s liberal variety is failing, says a Chinese venture investor, while China’s governance produces better outcomes
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Social Democracy @lemmy.ml leanleft @lemmy.ml Americans workers without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation are rising as gig work increases.
www.vox.com A huge number of Americans just became gig workers and we’re not readyAn astonishing one in three US workers does gig work now.
The number of people employed in nontraditional ways in the US rose to a record 51 million this year, an unprecedented 34 percent jump compared to 2020
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these types of workers are now equivalent to a third of US employment.
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Why are people choosing gig work?
Despite a rapid economic recovery, there are still 6 million fewer employed Americans than there were pre-pandemic, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Many of those have had to turn to independent work — which often gets missed by the BLS data — to compensate.Other independent workers do have regular jobs, but those jobs just don’t provide enough money. Nearly three-quarters of new part-time independents in the MBO survey said they took on independent work to supplement their incomes.
“Making ends meet has just gotten harder and harder,” Steve King, a board member at MBO and a future of work expert, told Recode. “In our world, it’s very challenging for a lot of people to hit t