Social democracy

And it's part of a plan to create a commission that many believe Alex does too that is designed to cut Social Security benefits.

Alex, what are the Democrats running to take back the House and Senate in this November's election, proposing to address the Social Security shortfall? And I say that, or I ask that question, given I've heard nary a word about Social Security and all the campaign rhetoric and advertising that are coming at us fast and furious in advance of the election November 3rd.

I will say that the Democrats are generally, for the most part, on the right side of this issue.

And anyone who isn't the one or two that are on the wrong side, you know, we're going to have to defeat them along with the Republicans.

But the truth is also that the American people are going to be loud and clear.

We know the Republicans want to cut Social Security, so we're going to toss them out of office.

That sends the message to the Democrats that the only path forward is to get billionaires and the ultra-wealthy to pay the same rate into Social Security to prevent the 25 percent benefit cut in 2032 and to expand benefits.

So we are pushing and have every indication that we will get a vote on a bill to expand Social Security in the next Congress.

Different from everybody, but that's what people want.

They don't trust the professional political class, as well they shouldn't, and they vote that way, and they vote again-- If you're left wing, you vote for the so-called progressives or Social Democrats or DSA, and if you're on the right, you vote for the Trump.

But Trump has the disadvantage now that he's been in there for roughly six years, and Make America Great Again only in his own social media posts late at night is he even him portraying such a message.

He was going to stop the wars.

And now the punchline: If you can't deliver the jobs that disappeared between 1970 and 2010, then you can't do what the people who voted for you wanted you to do and what you promised them you would do.

Ah, and then you're gonna lose 'em.

And given that elections in our country, you know, between the, the Republicans and the Democrats, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, a big difference it never-- doesn't make, except on secondary issues, not on basic economics and not on basic foreign policy.

Well, you know, you, y- you're destroying yourself.

Still, Ms. Sununu will have to contend with the national political headwinds as President Donald Trump faces lower approval ratings that recently sank to record lows for his two terms.

Holding the seat is crucial to Democrats' hope of flipping the Senate, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans 53 to 47.

If Republicans win, they score a needed cushion in a year when Democrats are likely to gain ground.

If any Republican could flip the New Hampshire Senate seat, it's Sununu.

He's part of a popular political family in the state.

Republicans can absolutely flip this seat, Republican spokesperson told USA Today.

Pappas and Sununu are neck and neck in the polls, and the race rating just changed from a lean D to a toss-up.

The Democrats nominated a weak candidate with a dismal record who's failing right out of the gate.

And he had that sort of broader sweep view of things.

But after that, I mean, you get to the point where in the 1994 election, the one where the Republicans swept the Democrats out of Congress in that big Newt Gingrich wipeout.

We had been moving in a given direction under Bush and then the first two years of Clinton of trying to integrate Russia into the European sort of community.

We were moving toward this organization called the Partnership for Peace.

His government was taken out.

and it's not there anymore.

And the German people really thought, there were a lot of Germans who were patriots of the Kaiserreich, who didn't like the Social Democrats and all the various revolutionaries that were running around.

But in the context at the time, they supported it because they were like, now the Allies are gonna realize that they're not talking to the Kaiser, they're talking to the German people.

Now look, reducing the age of criminal responsibility proved to be particularly controversial, with police unions, prosecutors, and prison officials all warning that it could push the gangs to recruit even younger children.

However, it did receive the support of the opposition Social Democrats in a rare moment of consensus between Sweden's left and Sweden's right.

Something else changed under Christensen as well.

How police approach crime itself.

And they'd worked.

Malmö, the nation's third-largest city, was once nicknamed Sweden's Chicago, and not due to its residents' love of deep pan pizza.

Shootings and bombings had gutted the city through the mid-2010s, and in 2018, Four years before Christensen took office, and while Sweden was still run by the center-left Social Democrats, Malmö imported an American idea called Group Violence Intervention, running it locally under the name Sluta Shoot .

Under this program, the police, prosecutors, social workers, and community members sit known gang members down in a room, sometimes with the victim's family present, and deliver three messages.