So? The messaging is easy to reverse.

Republicans want to increase rent prices. Higher credit card interest. More expensive childcare costs. Higher prescription drug prices. Florida can't afford Republicans' economic policies.

It's literally the same game that conservatives pull whenever "the radical woke left" opposes tax caps (which don't actually lower taxes) and it has a very high rate of success with unaffiliated voters.

Realistically though, that kind of messaging "Far-Left Democrat" in this kind of environment, where Republicans have destroyed the state and federal economies for working class people, isn't intended to make people vote Republican. It's intended to make people not want to vote at all because "both sides are bad".

The other thing is that Trump is not a communist, right? But he definitely has had more of a hand in crafting a completely un-american command and control economy than anyone I can think of.

These assholes wouldn't know communism if it walked right up and seized their means of production. Taking care of your own people just means you're doing a good job as a government.

The vast majority of voters haven't studied political economy or social studies. This kind of bullshit resonates.

If only Americans could read, they might learn to vote in their own interests

I miss when reading from top-to-bottom was standard. Now, occasionally, we have to read middle-to-bottom-to-top-to-middle.

This is typical. Overload buzzwords like "communism" and "socialism" and people think they're bad words without being able to describe why.

FOX! lul

Cap top-end wages by regulating a minimum wage that can be no less than 5% of the top pay in that company, (and calling out shell companies so we don't get a situation where the CEOs' are technically "managing consultants" to avoid this rule.)

Didn't Donald Trump himself talk about caping credit card interest rates? He was lying obviously but I do remember him saying it.

These republicans are shooting themselves in the foot. When the most milquetoast reforms imaginable get called communism, it doesn’t make progressivism less popular, it just makes communism sound good.

Honestly, Fox News is getting the word out better than most other networks.

But investment funds bought whole industries, destroyed competition and pumped prices.

Government looking to the side.

as if Conservatives arnt the biggest welfare queens.

That's right, good guy trump would never let his administration impede the market's price setting mechanism. That's why the admin totally did NOT use Euros to buy Japanese yen, or us bonds to control bond interest rates. And they definitely are not talking about diesel export bans to control the price of diesel. Good guy free market trump would NEVER do anything to mess woth good ol supply and demand! /s obviously

This tweet is extremely funny if you're aware of the fact that Richard Nixon also instituted price controls.

Nixon is, indeed, too far left to be accepted by the modern RNC.

Calling progressives Communists and Marxists started with Hitler. Even after the war it was carried on by Fascists. From Wikipedia:

Origins

The phrase "cultural Marxism" to mean a cultural attack from the left aimed at destroying society and installing Marxism/Bolshevism can be traced back to the 1930s, appearing in the 1938 July-September volume of "British Union Quarterly", the journal of The British Union of Fascists.[11][12] The short essay claims the source of cultural Marxism is the "deracinated" nature of "city-dwelling", and the "indiscriminate toleration-psychosis of liberalism, inherent in Social-Democracy".[11][13]

It's not pointed out enough that Conservatism is Cultural Fascism.

"Communist price controls"?

America is really throwing around communism like a scary buzz word, huh?

This is obviously not communism.... But also, just because it has large support doesn't automatically make it not-communism

wow... amazing innovative strategy that they've used incessantly for the last million years. let's see if the dumb fucks fall for it yet again

Those percentages mean that a lot of people want it, but vote against it. This is something that I will never understand

Damn the average magat is so uneducated they don't know the difference between communism and socialism. It's just dumb people voting for dumb evil people.

Direct price controls like that, are generally a bad idea. Often, unintended consequences make the underlying problem worse.

For drug prices, most are created with substantial government funded research. The government could leverage that into a major patent ownership stake, then immediately license the drug for generic production.

For child care, the government could give a monthly stipend to all parents. Parents could then decide, use it for child care, or quit/cut hours to care for your kid yourself.

I'm not sure about interest rate limits; That might work. But 10% is kinda low. Maybe someplace between 15-20%. And credit cards aren't even the worst offenders. Pay day loans are much worse, with rates over 200% sometimes.