The idea that Democrats should make it their priority to get us back to "normal" is worse than naive

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128. And you propose to cut military spending how? Not a winning proposal for Dems who for decades

have been accused of tax and spent AND being soft on defense. Certainly not happening with this
senate and doubt we will see a 20 percent cut under a Dem senate and house, not with the numbers of moderate Dems, some of whom are also fairly hawkish.

The fact is that as with every single payer nation, we will pay much higher taxes.

France was taxing ultra rich at a high rate, higher than Warren suggests, and still middle class and workers getting taxed at a rate that helped cause the Yellow Jacket protests.

If we take all the progressive proposals together, we will be in a financial mess and still not have done a darned thing about all the social services and programs across the nation that exist currently in a broken, underfunded, or endangered state.