It's weird if you put in front of them plans that will either put money in their pocket, or a developer's pocket, less than 1 in 5 people choose the latter (probably about the same number people that get money from the construction, real estate or shithead technocratic wonk industries)
To be absolutely fair, I cannot blame a Ukrainian supporter for liking the idea of restricting democratic rights - that's like the whole schtick of the Ukrainian government.
I agree with you. I think it would help to have an esoteric issue you’re obsessed with that low info voters can associate you with might be beneficial as well, as long as the esoteric issue is not territorial expansion of NATO we know that one doesn’t work
I think there's a lane to be had fighting to aggressively reform public schooling: universal free student meals, competitive teacher's wages, competitive magnet programs, pushing for phonics education, and taking back every single red dime of public money in private education.
That’s actually a great one, and if that person does not exist they should be invented immediately. Tim Waltz went pretty far by passing and loudly defending universal school lunch. If someone adopted everything you proposed, a lowinfo can translate it as “Candidate X cares about school”
Dems: We need to campaign on things that are already popular.
Voters: Anti-corporate populism is much more popular that repackaged neoliberalism.
Dems: Not like that. Idiots.
It's honestly weird that even the site that brands itself as lefty twitter is extremely vehement that corporations and oligarchs aren't really an issue. Why even care about economics if you don't want elon musk in a pillory?
I think that's what they're saying - both framings could support the same practical policy, but presenting it as "sticking it to the vampires" plays better.
The thing about "win-win" framings is that Actual People kinda instinctively know they're the weaker party in the coalition, and the first one to get screwed over when interests conflict. Costly Signaling where people are willing to make enemies of the more-powerful members is more convincing.
We see how corporations or trusts, both historically and in real time, have consistently violated the public trust and harmed society in the relentless pursuit of profits.
They're gonna do it again aren't they? By "it" I mean eschew the most popular policy for more neoliberalism and once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Voters: Anti-corporate populism is much more popular that repackaged neoliberalism.
Dems: Not like that. Idiots.