Americans are used to struggling for basic necessities while their tax dollars fund wars and prop up big businesses. So when they are offered something as fundamental as child care at no additional cost, the response is often: “What’s the catch?” That’s how some residents of New Mexico are responding to a first-of-its-kind program in the United States where, starting on November 1, 2025, parents…
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Nah but the establishment democrats are right to hold up Ezra Klein when he says the reason Democrats keep losing is they aren’t running enough anti-abortion candidates!
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Such an approach was politically savvy. In 2021, New Mexico’s legislature finally passed a resolution to put the question of universal child care funding on the ballot and in late 2022, voters were allowed to decide on the matter directly. They voted overwhelmingly to approve it.
“In a state like New Mexico that has a mix of ideologies … to get 70 percent of the vote was huge,” said Serrano.
Democrats just need to move right a bit more amiright Ezra? Just a bit more diet fascist.
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