democrats self-identified as liberal. in 2018, up sharply over the last decade. this comes as democrats have retaken the majority in the house with a caucus that contains a number of high profile progressive such as alexandria ocasio-cortez who is pushing for medicare for all and a green new deal financed by a top marginal tax rate of 70%. we re back with dan he dan hennr and kate o dell. to give us an overview of what are the signs of this left turn on policy. paul, i think you just mentioned, we re talking about a green new deal which by the way makes the obama administration s clean power plan which reengineered huge parts of the energy economy look modest. we re talking about rei think reengineering the economy to not use carbon anymore and including in this of course job
that s what he wants. he wants to give people some relief, when they re forced to buy the product and have to pay a penalty they have some cushion. he should think about why people don t buy the plans in the first place. i think that s because the quality of the coverage is not very good. paul: dan, we ve had a test run here, right, vermont tried to put in singer payer under president obama, an earlier governor, during the obama administration. they even did a design. they gave up on it. wh well, they gave up on it because it would be too expensive. mayor de blasio announced his plans this week. there s a lot of money in the city, it s just in the wrong hands, a famous phrase. we take your money to pay for all of this. paul: is there a better definition of socialism than that? no. paul: that is pure socialism. vermont, bernie sanders is from vermont. they tried one of these public health plans like this. they found they would have to
component of this, using the jobs, using the subsidies to prop things up and there s june unionization push, using the green new deal to push social goals as well. paul: what explains this, dan, this move left from the democratic party? you and i were growing up, this is not bill clinton s democratic party. this is there aren t any moderates. well, there are somed moderates. there aren t any conservatives in the democratic party. it s becoming really increasingly a a progressive liberal party. the easy way to describe it is, the difference between the party of bill clinton and the party of bernie sanders, indeed a socialist. they ve been drifting further and further away from any kind of association with the private sector, the private economy for a long time. most professional democratic politicians today don t understand the private economy other than as a source of revenue. the other thing that bernie
this week. they issued new guidelines on treating boys and men. they are now saying that traits like dominance and competitiveness have been largely harmful. therapists need to address this by recognizing privilege and taking on institutional racism including the criminal justice system. i don t buy into this. i think some women still like their men strong. good luck getting rid of dominance tendencies among men. dan? i m giving a rare hit to the whole wide world this week paul. there s good news about going on in the globe. for the first time in all of human history, you can define over half the world s population as middle class. secondly, most people over the age of 15 are now lit literate. literate. the level of sanitation is rising and the world s air is cleaning and the homicide rate worldwide is falling. did socialism do this? no, i believe it was capitalism.