User:Dpe12/2020 United States elections


 * note to peer reviewer* : this would go under the "issues" section of the existing 2020 United States elections article. I also realized that I will need to do other articles in addition to this as there was not enough to add.

The word “socialism” also made its way into the 2020 election cycle. The term socialism actually refers to a political system in which the state is in charge of the economy and provides not only social welfare services such as health care, but where "all sorts of other things are in state control, including the large sections of the private economy. Though neither of the two main political parties endorse such ideas, Democrats have tended, through regulation and social programs, to be more empowering of the federal government and in regulating the economy than the Republicans. Republicans were therefore able to distinguish this difference in ideas as socialist in an effort to sway voters from ideas that are more socially progressive. Notably at the Republican National Conventio n, Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, asserted that current Presidential candidate Joe Biden would be taking orders from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the four congresswomen known as the "Squad," who are known as being some of the most prominent in the further left wing of the Democratic party. She stated that, "Their vision for America is socialism, and we know that socialism has failed everywhere." This is a tactic that distinctly stuck with Republican voters throughout the election cycle, as their base found comfort in the degradation of social ideas. Through fear mongering about many, mostly moderate Democrats, the perceived threat of socialism was believed to possibly be a motivating factor on election day. Essentially, by depicting their opponents as more radical than they actually were, it was thought that Republicans would be able to win the votes of the consequential more moderate voters.