Heath Howard, DSA candidate for NH-01, on why he supports a one state solution for Israel-Palestine
"A traditional two-state solution will not work. Splitting the land along ethno-religious borders will not yield peace.
In a partitioned system, Palestinians would remain second-class citizens, permanently denied their fundamental right to return to the homes from which their families were expelled during the Nakba.
The only just path forward is a single, secular, democratic state with universal rights for all people in the region."
I don't personally consider myself to be a socialist and consider some of the DSAs policies to be nonsensical at best, but I am more than happy to support socialists if it means finally forcing economic populist policies into the government.
We cannot afford to lose this chance.
I'm a proud democratic socialist, but that doesn't mean I agree with the entire DSA platform. I'm running to create permanent affordability for working families in Wisconsin.
@Timodc Riiiiiiiiight it's not a coincidence at all that Haley Stevens started to "grow on you" and grow on a bunch of other influencers all at the same time.
We're not stupid Tim. We have eyes.
Bernie Sanders' influence is growing in the Democratic Party, but leaders fear his primary meddling could hurt Democrats in the midterms.
Rep. Gregory Meeks: "He seemed to not care."
Right now, Democrats cannot win just by being in opposition to Trump. They have to actually stand for something.
We need to get back to basics a little bit if we want to bring back voters who may have left our party in recent years. Here’s what I stand for as a Midwestern Democrat that favors pragmatism:
An economy where if you work hard and play by the rules, you get ahead, and your kids do better than you did. That is the core of it, and everything else flows from there.
One job that pays you well, with good benefits, where you can save money every month. Not an extra side hustle and still coming up short.
A home you can actually afford. Not waiting until you are fifty to buy your first house. A place you own, where you can raise your family and build equity to pass on to your kids.
Good public schools for our kids, that help train them for the jobs of the future, not the economy of thirty years ago.
Healthcare that is as good as what people get in other wealthy countries, where you do not go bankrupt because you got sick. In my mind, that means a national insurance plan available to anyone at any age. A system that rewards you for taking care of yourself.
And a common set of democratic rules that everyone plays by. No exceptions. No one man or one team can bend the system for themselves while everyone else follows the rules. And in my mind, that shouldn’t be partisan.
That is the vision.