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You Are Asking for the Keys
There is a political genre I have come to distrust. It begins with an invitation to imagine. Imagine waking up without debt. Imagine never worrying about a medical bill. Imagine housing guaranteed as a right. Imagine working fewer hours. Imagine retirement secured by the public. Imagine food, energy, medicine, education, and transportation no longer organized around profit.
This is more or less how the Democratic Socialists of America open their 2026 program, Workers Deserve More. In their “Day Without Capitalism,” the future is secure, humane, materially generous, and liberated from many of…
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