Our education is also mostly for profit and privatized, especially college and the neoliberals are trying to privatize grade school now as well for profit, else people would not be in debt for either as they are now, and deeply. In the case of for profit health care many are still going bankrupt (unfortunately student debt does not even allow that as an option)
We HAD more of some of those things.
Perhaps after breaking up the banks we should nationalize them, I'm all for it!
Public run infrastructure work projects are much needed as well. Sanders has called for that and paid parental leave, both socialized programs we do not have.
Do you really want to argue about a ham sandwich and a sandwich made with ham as different, when they are two ways of saying the same thing?
Hillary is a neoliberal and not at all for the same things as Sanders (even if she will adopt anything temporarily and then change it in a month for a different audience). She is a neoliberal. Neoliberals want everything privatized, hardly the same as Sanders.
All you need to know about Hillary can be understood if you know her political roots, roots she has not wavered from.
New Democrats, in the politics of the United States, are an ideologically centrist faction within the Democratic Party that emerged after the victory of Republican George H. W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election. They are identified with centrist social/cultural/pluralist positions and neoliberal fiscal values. They are represented by organizations such as the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the New Democrat Network, and the Senate and House New Democrat Coalitions
After the landslide electoral losses to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, a group of prominent Democrats began to believe their party was in need of a radical shift in economic policy and ideas of governance. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was founded in 1985 by Al From and a group of like-minded politicians and strategists. They advocated a political "Third Way" as a method to achieve the electoral successes of Reaganism by adopting similar economic policies (Reagan Democrats and Moderate Republicans would provide burgeoning new constituencies after adding these new economic policies and politicians to our tent they contended) While hoping to retain, woman, minorities and other social issues allies with long ties to the party. Such would be their new Democratic coalition forged between fiscal right and social left under the "New" Democratic banner. The DLC disbanded in 2011 during an apparent re-branding of the New Democrat movement when money ties to the Koch bros. and Koch representatives placed on the DLC's board embarrassingly became common knowledge among the Democratic left. The DLC is survived by the Third Way, The New Democrat Coalition, and Al From's Progressive Policy Institute among other corporate funded groups that continue to sell their Economic-Right/Social-Left brand of "Centrism" to America.
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