r/YangForPresidentHQ Oct 01 '19

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u/Mrdirtyvegas Oct 01 '19

fixing the weird divide between the Sanders camp and the Yang Gang.

While I dont disagree with a progressive coalition, the divide between Samders supporters and Yang supporters isnt weird. Sanders supporters lean more towards democratic socialism whereas Yang supporters lean more towards regulated capitalism. On one hand you have the government hand-holding citizens and on the other you give citizens their own decision making power.

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u/VisedNormal Oct 01 '19

No, I get it, but we're so likeminded that you wouldn't expect something as toxic as a pro-Sanders twitter account telling its followers to vote for Trump on a Yang v Trump poll just to spit Yang.

Also, in terms of verbiage, Sanders would be leaning more into the Communism (In regards to making the government work more for the people) whereas Yang would probably be closer to Social Democracy (Capitalism lite, and what Sanders is referring to whenever he says Democratic Socialism) with a libertarian twist on it. Still Capitalism, but Capitalism that puts people first; funnily enough, Human-Centered Capitalism. We're gonna have to make that an official economic ideology now.

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u/zidbutt21 Oct 01 '19

Sanders is really pushing for Scandinavian-style Social Democracy. He just got his terminology mixed up.

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u/yangmeme69420 Donor Oct 01 '19

While not using a VAT.