Social Democracy

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Everything regarding social democracy as a political movement.

As described on wikipedia:

"Social democracy is a political, social and economic philosophy within socialism. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal-democratic polity and a capitalist-oriented mixed economy."

Social democracy is often confused with democratic socialism which is it's own thing.

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If you had to prioritize one major policy reform to start moving the U.S. toward a social democratic model, what would it be and why? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've read some on publicly funded campaigns which makes sense to me. Without the repeal of Citizens United, there would still be those types of mega donations but maybe pass a law so that they get taxed to shit and rolled back into the public campaign funds..