What is a “far left” agenda?

I think it’s an attack (based in fear) on anyone the right considers lesser than themselves - they don’t want to give a helping hand, equal rights, or equal opportunities to those who are minorities, poor, LGBTQ, from poor countries, speak a different language or have different religious beliefs. They demonize those who aren’t like them, and any attempts to level the playing field brings out their cries of socialism or far-left agenda. They seem to feel they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, or are entitled to what they have - and anyone else can and should do the same. "It's not fair." But don’t try to take away their Social Security ("we earned it") or health benefits, and they don’t see all the services that society provides as having anything to do with it.

Pretty clear from those tweets that the new phrase that the R’s are supposed to repeat is “far left agenda.” They disgust me.

Well ... how do we pay for anything? Wars, corporate welfare, tax cuts and loopholes to the point where the uber-wealthy pay nothing, and anything else that the GOP is fine with paying for. You and I pay more than we should for safety net programs so that companies like Walmart don’t have to pay their employees a living wage or provide them with insurance.

I maintain that there is no such thing as a fiscal conservative. Both parties spend, both parties tax. No one is in favor of waste. It’s just a matter of what we prioritize to spend on, and who we choose to tax.

I’d prefer to pay for domestic social initiatives and climate policy by making sure the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. I’d prefer not to live in a country where the middle and working classes pay more than their fair share for a bare-bones social safety net, inadequate public education, substandard healthcare, and crumbling infrastructure, while the rich live under a protective umbrella of laws and policies designed to make them richer.

Bingo.

If anything the last 4 years HAS to show that the GOP has no plan to pay for ANYTHING other than corporate welfare. And corporate welfare doesn’t fund anything. They increased the deficit more than any other administration and didn’t pay for a god damned thing. I don’t expect Biden can get this under control anytime soon and the GOP are going to blame it all on him, but they made these issues. Anyone who has concerns for ‘how will we pay for that’ can’t possibly sign on with the GOP because they haven’t paid for anything and they still ran us broke.

If you want a thriving economy have healthy people who aren’t overly burdened by inconceivable debt ( for healthcare & such ) and can spend their money in the economy.

The right is going so far right that far left is actually the middle.

In Europe Bernie Sanders would be considered centre to slightly left of centre.

The Democratic Party needs to be careful that it doesn't keep moving to the right in some bizarre effort to mop up Republicans who are not Trumpers.

Certainly not what the some of these republicans think it is, that's for sure. No different to their interpretation of socialism.

Maybe if Marco Rubio's president hadn't tried to destroy America and the World, President Biden might not have had to issue so many of the EO's on his first day in office.

I agree with artbabe assessment on my justification for voting republican for years.

Merge said: I maintain that there is no such thing as a fiscal conservative. Both parties spend, both parties tax. No one is in favor of waste. It’s just a matter of what we prioritize to spend on, and who we choose to tax.

This is what Merge said in response and I have to say that I can see this now. The Trump tax cut really left a bad taste in my mouth. And then his follow up budget proposals to cut social security and Medicare. I can wholeheartedly say I support those two social programs. And I have always felt that we should be supporting the food stamp program. I am sickened at the thought of anyone going hungry in our country. And really I donate more per year to my local food bank than my tax dollars devote to this program.

And really too, as I've gotten more progressive I can see the need for healthcare as well. I personally stay in a job that pays me less than I could make because of the cadillac healthcare plan. We are high users of healthcare and that is super important to me. And even though I love my job and there are definitely other reasons to stay there (I will most likely stay until retirement) I would like the freedom and flexibility to be able to change positions if I wanted to without losing my coverage. In addition, my ex DH and I both lost our jobs during the last recession and what that meant for me personally was a loss of my medication for my bipolar disorder. I couldn't afford it. And that is so detrimental to my stability. I would love to live in a country where my healthcare isn't dependent on my job. So I'm willing to pay for it.

Exactly my concern with nominating Biden in the first place (I supported Elizabeth Warren). If “unity” means sliding ever further right to try to appease the GOP, that’s a problem. But it is what it is, and we’ve got control of things now. I’m sure the Biden administration is aware that progressives will be holding his feet to the fire for the duration of his term.

You invest tax money into priorities that help everyone instead of giving corporations and the wealthiest multi-trillion dollar tax cuts

All the far left people I know want crazy things like health insurance for everyone, ensuring children and the poor have food to eat, free education, crazy shit like that. You know like they have in other industrialized countries, who do we think we are Australia?