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    Are we, the Democratic party out of touch?

    No, it’s the electorate’s fault!

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      Nobody is arguing the DNC isn’t out of touch.

      however the electorate isn’t much better. Cutting off their nose to spite their face.

      Nice try on the strawman though, better than some.

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        I am not here to argue. I will not engage beyond this post no matter what is said in response because I don’t want to fight.

        What matters is policy. Real hard on the ground policy that real normal people can feel and see where they live.

        When some wonk gets on MSNBC with a spreadsheet hooting about how much better things are with grocery prices or housing costs, that doesn’t mean anything to someone who’s begging for extra shifts at work so they can make rent. Those are aggregates and averages. If the 200k-500k bracket is doing better while the 13k-45k bracket isnt, the numbers still went up. That looks better in the data. But the people at the bottom are still suffering just as much as ever. They don’t feel or see any improvement because there wasn’t any. Not for them.

        The health and performance of the stock market only matters to those on the bottom when it crashes and suddenly they’re paying more for everything. At no other point does it impact them in the slightest. Those record profits aren’t reinvested, they’re not used to reduce the strain on consumers. Its gobbled up by a few dozen shareholders. It benefits nobody else. And if an executive or CEO has the slightest semblance of a soul and wants to help consumers they’re voted out because the only responsibility is to those few dozen shareholders.

        Healthcare. The ACA was a grand achievement. They took Romneycare national. Round of applause for all involved. But its still cheaper to do some form of Universal Healthcare. That would be the easiest win in history. And everyone would feel it immediately. It would help 100,000,000 people immediately. People who have been putting off medical treatment for half their lives because of the extortionist expense would immediately seek treatment. They would seek preventative treatment and raise the overall health across the country. Obesity rates drop, drug use plummets, etc.

        Marijuana. Literally every person I know and interact with in my daily life uses it. Do you know the number one reason I’ve heard from all of them? Pain management. Again, another easy win that is supported by everyone except the ghouls who were alive when it was called “The Devil’s Lettuce” and propagandized into believing its this terrible thing.

        Hard Policy that people can feel and see in their daily lives. You can still court the comfortable liberals who care about the stock market and all that. They’ll be fine no matter who is in office. If they need an abortion it’s a weekend vacay to Zurich or somewhere. But you’re never going to hold any meaningful power again without hard policy. Because for decades now the republicans have cornered the market on grievance politics and reaction. To break through that you need something real. No more vibes based nonsense. It will not work.

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          I am not here to argue. I will not engage beyond this post no matter what is said in response because I don’t want to fight.

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          tldr

          edit: for the downvoters, how can I take anyone seriously if they’re not going to sit and defend their opinion.

          Why would I even waste my time reading their wall of text? They might as well be screaming into the void.

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            They’re right. They put together a well constructed argument for his position and you simply ignored all of it.

            Harris ran a failed strategy of moving to the right and ‘business as usual’ when people want actual progressive policies that will address their material needs.

            Neoliberalism will always move to the right and normalize fascist ideology over improving the livelyhood of the working class. Progressive policies are popular with Republican voters too, that’s the correct way to fracture the Republican base into voting Democrat.

            Conceding to right-wing policies and disinformation, like on immigration, only alienates more of the Democratic base while bolstering Republican voters support for the Republican party.

            Polls on campaign messaging

            How to Win a Swing Voter in Seven Days

            “The View” Alternate Universe: Break From Biden in Interviews, Play the Hits in Ads

            Polls on policy

            How Trump and Harris Voters See America’s Role in the World

            Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college

            Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones

            Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind

            Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support

            Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies

            Tim Walz’s Progressive Policies Popular With Republicans in Swing States

            I voted for Harris and told others to do so too. Doesn’t change the fact that it was her campaign strategy that was responsible for the loss of millions in voter turnout. All the evidence and polling show that running on popular progressive policies that represent a change and improve the material conditions of the American public was the right way to boost voter turnout, the fact that she instead went to the right was a calculated decision that completely failed.

            Edit: pronouns

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              At the risk of being a pedant, no reason to think that person is a man. They did articulate the argument tho, for sure. And you did too.

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              But the left doesn’t seem to care or are not motivated. The right has their shit together and people are voting even if they don’t agree or think everything trump has said. Where the left just seem to say oh I don’t agree with x I’m not voting. Roy vs wade is a great example they kept on pecking at it till they got it and the left bever got it into law thinking this is good enough.

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                If by left you mean the Democratic Party I agree. It’s important to recognize that the Democratic Party is for the most part running on the platform of neoliberalism. That’s been the case since Third Way Politics. The issue is that, while the Democratic Base is progressive, the Democratic Party is instead still centered on neoliberalism.

                That’s an important distinction because neoliberalism is fundamentally at odds with progressive legislation that improves the material conditions of the American public, at the expense of capital accumulation of corporations.

                There are only a small amount of progressive Democrats within the Democratic Party, which include Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the rest of The Squad. As a whole, even the Democratic Party works against progressive policy which is exactly why we’ve been seeing this disconnect between the Party and the Base.

                Progressive policies and change can only be created and mobilized through grassroots movements. Republican policies, on the other hand, are entirely funded by corporate profits. That includes the entire manosphere, from think tanks like the Heritage Foundation to Fix News to individual conservative content creators like Ben Shapiro.

                That’s precisely why we need to organize more. Neither of the two parties have the interest of the working class at heart. Only by creating our own organization like through groups like the DSA and Unions do we have any kind of power to demand progressive policies that will improve our livelyhood and communities

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            edit: for the downvoters, how can I take anyone seriously if they’re not going to sit and defend their opinion.

            You’re mocking someone for posting their reasoning in detail, and then getting upset when people downvote you without giving reasons. What do you want?

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              after this I won’t respond to you because your opinion is meaningless and doesn’t deserve my attention.

              I’m mocking them because the message they introduced their opinion with is the same one above.

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                I’m sorry that reading long posts is hard for you. But don’t take it out on others. You can say that it was too long without the added abrasiveness.

                And here, you’re telling me that my opinion is meaningless. Why do you do that? Almost everyone here has similar values and goals; and yet you’re lashing out at everyone, creating conflict and division. Isn’t that the opposite of what you want?

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        Yes, the number of people on here who claim that withholding their vote to ‘punish the DNC’ and make them learn a lesson is helpful is too high. If the Democrats were going to learn their lesson, they would have done so after 2016. Believing that by not voting, they’ll affect the Democrats’ strategy doesn’t make them leftist, it makes them another flavour of liberal, who thinks establishment electoralism is a pathway to socialism.

        A much more effective solution is to organize locally, educating people on real solutions and pushing for change that way, not by blindly assuming the Democrats will reflect on their loss and run a communist candidate next time.

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        What strawman? When is it appropriate to hold DNC leadership accountable for losing the election, again?

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          The DNC will have its come to jesus moment and maybe come to the wrong conclusions again, but it’s still patently obvious that a massive number of people will vote against their own interests regardless of the arguments anyone made.

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            Why would they? They’ve just shown their complete inability to pivot an iota, for THREE elections. That’s 12 years of nothing learned by the DNC, minimum.

            Unless you consider that they don’t care to win. Unless they benefit from losing equally, or more as losers. Does Biden or Harris look particularly pained by this outcome, at all? They look pleased as punch.

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            Yeah it’s hard to vote in an informed manner with so many obstacles to education. I suspect this problem is about to get a whole lot worse unfortunately.

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      The electorate picked the racist rapist trump, that’s what represents America.

      To say that a political party should stray further from what the majority of Americans that stepped up to vote for is what is out of touch.

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        It represents a large portion, but progressive policies are widely popular. Even in states Trump won there were votes passed to protect abortion access and increase minimum wage.

        Most people vote based on vibes, and there were no progressive or positive vibes put forward by the dems this campaign. They signaled a ‘lethal military’, tighter borders, and sought endorsements from prominent Republicans, trying to win votes that would never go to their party anyway, alienating anyone who might have believed in the genuineness of the dems as ‘progressives’.

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          Eh if the left are not going to bother to vote then who cares and they shouldn’t cater to them. Go more right split the vote at least those people vote. The ones who don’t don’t matter.

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      Honestly, if they do the same things next cycle, I’ll be more inclined to vote green.

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      15 million Democrats, progressives, and independents condoned racism are at fault.

      Democratic leadership blind and dismissive of the common worker suck and are at fault.

      Both can and are true at the same damn time and Democrats and progressives all over the nation fucked us all.