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content ideas

This is an ambitious, wide-ranging topic; some food for thought:

FDR's progressive VP, Henry Wallace
powerful opposition: Kochs/ALEC, US Chamber of Commerce, Roger Ailes/Fox News
progressive new/digital media - radio, TV, blogs, podcasts, YouTubers: Air America, Current TV, Free Speech TV, Democracy Now!, Thom Hartmann, Young Turks, Humanist Report, Secular Talk, Majority Report, et al.
fight for progressive voice/presence on liberal media - CNN, MSNBC
Sanders Institute, Progressive International
2016 elections
- fake populist Trump/lies
- progressives mostly on defense for next 4 years
2018 elections: AOC, The Squad, Knock Down the House documentary
2019 Squad inaugurations among federal shutdown
2020: COVID-19
- push for social justice among nationwide health and economic crises
- billionaires getting richer while regular people struggle
BLM 2020
- BLM reignites due to police shootings, subsequent racial unrest - even among COVID
- conversation expands to justice for native people, transgender, disabilities
- nationwide, and even worldwide, pushback against former slave traders, plantation owners; statutes removed, streets, buildings renamed
- sports teams and products rebrand due to racist connotations
climate change/Green New Deal
- renewable energy, electric transportation
- Greta, Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion
cannabis legislation: medical, recreational
Medicare for All
- Michael Moore Sicko documentary
- momentum from Sanders' 2016 campaign moves the Overton window
- 2020 centrist candidate opposition; neoliberals support insurance industry
Movement for a Peoples Party/MPP.
- planned high-profile Milwaukee summer 2020 DNC presence necessarily replaced by online convention.
- High-profile supporters include Cornel West, Nin(j)a Turner, Marianne Williamson, Jesse Ventura, Mike Gravel, Danny Glover

Doug Grinbergs (talk) 11:29, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested merge

I see that someone suggested a merge with History of the socialist movement in the United States but I am unable to find the discussion for it, so I'm giving my thoughts here. I belive the articles should be merged because they are completely different things. Socialism is a defined economic system, while left-wing politics is a general, variable, subjective, term for many, many, political ideas. Left-wing politics covers more issues than just economy (abortion, climate change, LGBTQIA+ rights, stronger federal government). This article doesn't really cover left-wing politics in general, just the socialist aspects. The article on left-wing politics in general does a much better job at this, while right now this article just doesn't cover those issues of left-wing poliitics. I fully support merging even though the articles should be covering different things, because they are not. βӪᑸᙥӴ • Talk • Contribs 01:11, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Sections

The current page is heavily focused on socialist and communist politics while ignoring many of the more successful (and thus now considered mainstream) left groups. It gives the impression that left-wing politics is very extreme and marginal. Here are some topics that are missing:

Dieism
Transcendentalism Transcendentalism
Abolitionism Abolitionism
Pacifism
Progressivism Progressivism_in_the_United_States
Woman Suffrage
Anti-Apartheid movement
Secular Humanism Secular humanism

Including topics like these will give this page a more comprehensive and less slanted impression of left-wing politics. Oski91 (talk) 06:20, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]