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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21778444
Summary
Historians suggest Democrats might have fared better against Donald Trump by embracing the economic issues championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, who has long pushed for a focus on “bread-and-butter” concerns for working-class voters.
Despite Kamala Harris’s progressive policies, polls showed Trump was favored on economic issues, particularly among working-class and Hispanic voters.
Historian Leah Wright Rigueur argued that Sanders’ messaging on economic struggles could be key for future Democratic strategies.
Sanders himself criticized the party for “abandoning” the working class, which he said has led to a loss of support across racial lines.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 27•4 days ago
This assumes that Democrats want to win at any cost. Listening to Sanders is a bridge too far.
Democrats would rather lose than do even the most tepid social democratic reformism.
- Dragon Rider (drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English5•4 days ago
That’s why refusing to vote isn’t an effective strategy for changing the democrats. They don’t care. Non voters are just murdering trans people to make a point that they won’t listen to.
- Didros ( @Didros@beehaw.org ) 8•4 days ago
The people who kill are not those who refuse to vote. It’s those that vote to kill.
- Dragon Rider (drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English4•4 days ago
Allowing someone to be killed through deliberate inaction is the same as killing them. You’re responsible for the actions you chose not to take.
- Didros ( @Didros@beehaw.org ) 5•4 days ago
You’ve killed thousands if that is true. You could have said something to prevent a suicide, you could have spared a dollar to save a homeless person who froze that night. You are a mass murderer if you really think that. It’s a sad way to live.
- Dragon Rider (drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English1•3 days ago
Are you sure you saw the word “deliberate”?
- Didros ( @Didros@beehaw.org ) 3•3 days ago
How are my examples not deliberate?
- Dragon Rider (drag) ( @dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ) English1•3 days ago
Drag did say all drag could to prevent a suicide whenever one of drag’s friends was down. And it worked, none of drag’s friends are dead yet.
- queermunist she/her ( @queermunist@lemmy.ml ) 3•4 days ago
Did you even volunteer for Harris or donate to her campaign? 🙄
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English16•4 days ago
It is difficult to get a campaign strategist to understand something when their
griftcareer path depends upon them not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair, probably - zante ( @zante@slrpnk.net ) English7•4 days ago
Up next : did Marx have a point ?
- Cowbee [he/him] ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 11•4 days ago
Every single day Marx and Lenin continue to be vindicated. Try as liberals and progressives might, as time passes their analysis only gains more evidence supporting it. That’s why I keep an intro to Marxism reading list on hand if people want so I can link it whenever.
- Jentu ( @Jentu@lemmy.ml ) English3•4 days ago
I hear that’s what historians are saying
- eldavi ( @eldavi@lemmy.ml ) 4•4 days ago
i would vote for bernie in 2028 over newsome.
- UltraGiGaGigantic ( @UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ) English5•4 days ago
Love the guy (even if he seeks to save capitalism from itself, not replace it) but he is old.
- otter ( @otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•4 days ago
When good ol’ Capt. Obvious feels like being a redundant dickcheese: