A joke (normal blah blah blah).
Some classic Sawant:
Is it any wonder that socialism never had much of a chance in America if this is the best they can do?
What's unreasonable about that proposal? Would you rather those factories lie idle and production not be engaged in when there are people who would quite willingly take those jobs up? Surely I'd think that the formation of worker cooperatives would be much more preferable to total state ownership and management, no?
Anyway, to answer the poll, massive FF. Sawant is hopefully the first of a new wave of elected socialists that will (hopefully) come to redefine American politics in a meaningful way going forward. Dismissing Sawant as a joke is refusing to acknowledge that she's gotten more done in office than basically anyone on the "left" at the municipal level in a long time, chiefly in the form of the successful $15 an hour minimum wage fight that she led and continues to lead.
I would say she's definitely the most interesting person in American politics today and would regard her as my favorite elected official in the United States.
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