Is a New "New Deal" About to Wipe Out the Old Political Order? The commons, unions, and a livable wage built the first mass middle class. Now younger voters want to reboot that machine at full throttle… Thom Hartmann Dec 22, 2025

The media is freaking out over a new Rasmussen poll that found:

"A majority of voters under 40 want a democratic socialist to win the White House in the next presidential election.
"… 51% of Likely U.S. Voters ages 18 to 39 would like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election. Thirty-six percent (36%) don't want a democratic socialist to win in 2028, while 17% are not sure. …
"Among the youngest cohort (ages 18-24) of voters, 57% want a democratic socialist to win the next presidential election…
"Among those who voted for Kamala Harris in last year's presidential election, 78% would like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election." (emphasis added)

I was on Ali Velshi's MSNOW show yesterday morning discussing this, along with Michael Green who recently wrote a thought-provoking article about how the official poverty line in America is completely out-of-date and out of touch with the needs of most Americans. I shared a few statistics from my recent book

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

Michael W. Green

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

The Hidden History of the American Dream: the Demise of the Middle Class and How to Rescue Our Future:

— When, in 1957, my dad bought the house I grew up in, the average cost of a single-family home in America was about 2.2 times the average annual wage. Today it's more than ten times the average wage....."

link from Sid-l

June Zaccone
National Jobs for All Network
http://www.njfac.org

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