• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    As impossible and abstract as it seems to realign the Democratic base by shared class interests, it’s still much a more concrete plan than “reduce bigotry in strangers”

    Amen. Amen. Tried and failed, twice. Populism is the only way forward. Democrats must become the party of the poor again.

    Strange thing to have to say.

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      17 days ago

      Voters are saying “I am going to be homeless and can’t even afford bread”. The Democrat response to this is “stop being racist, the economy is fine”.

      I’m really not sure what anyone expected besides failure from this.

      It sucks because some of the agencies were doing good work, especially the mounting attacks on landlords and monopolists/oligopolists, which are necessary but will almost certainly end now. Honestly it felt like they wanted to lose, having learned nothing from 2016.