“how is Yang a socialist? Because he is a democrat?”
Why is your gut reaction to assume hes not a socialist? Is it because he’s a Democrat?
Have you followed him at all? Learned about his policies? Gone on his website?
His entire platform is socialism. He calls it capitalism but if you go on his website, he quotes karl Marx in order to say something along the lines of ‘although this sounds similar, it’s very different and much better’. Then he goes on to describe his policies which are in part inspired by socialism and in part simply humorous.
Among the ridiculous things he says, “the economy should be judged by absence of substance abuse, mental health and life expectancy”.
His “human capitalism” policy is based on the belief that “humans are more important than money” but he plans to carry that out by taking away money from business owners and distributing it to everyone else whether or not they are working. He also plans to penalize people who have earned too much by making it illegal for them to get other forms of work.
He is campaigning to allow every American to afford a high standard of living but he plans to do so by punishing big corporations for making decisions to improve their bottom line, while taxing everyone else to oblivion.
He says his policies will get rid of student debt, allow Americans to afford anything they desire, and ensure that big companies cant earn a profit on necessities if it means those necessities will be too expensive.
If you read his website, each idea is more disastrous than the next and will destroy this country.