Socialist elected in US!

[The Comrade]

city council? all sorts of wacky parties get elected to positions like that.

[The Dharma Bum]

[The Comrade]

i didn't say her position was wacky. i'm just pointing out that weirdo parties win elections like that often. this isn't that big of a deal.

[The Dharma Bum]

Well, I think ideas like having a locally established minimum living wage and increased unionism in the service industry are going to catch on, and that is going to happen via local politics on a municipal level. Really this kind of unionism is the only chance for people in the precariat class to get a piece of the pie for themselves. If people who find themselves in this situation, and their numbers are growing, don't band together they will be marginalized. It definitely helps for them to have official representation in government.

So it may not be that big of a deal, but it's still a step in a good direction and that's pretty cool. You gotta start somewhere.

[PoS]

Well a lot of conservatives are saying that America is slowly becoming socialist so I guess this just adds to that.

[Bauce]

[The Dharma Bum]

You ought to read some Thomas Paine, POS:

http://www.constitution.org/tp/agjustice.htm

The founders advocated a form of society that is radically different than what currently exists.

[Professor]

Not a fan of rent control. Don't know much about the specifics of it, but I hate the idea that the government can tell a private business at what price they can sell their product. Reeks of Venezuela.

[Bauce]

You gotta think of rent control in terms of the city it's happening in. You're in New Orleans where rent is very reasonable. There's probably not much need for rent control. NYC on the other hand would become entirely unaffordable for the massive service sector that makes so much of the city run if we lacked rent stabilization. We're already getting there anyway, this is the one thing holding the avalanche back.

[Professor]