Working Americans need real champions. To win back them back, Dems must unapologetically take on the billionaires and corporations who have rigged our economy.
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Why must it be the Dems? And what is your blueprint for fracturing the corrupt, even murderous corporate duopoly? Or do you envisage real progress within it?
Naahhh. trump/GOP voters are too stupid to win back, or more correctly, no party composed of decent people would adopt the lies & bullshit that it would take to win some of them back. You don't defeat your enemy by being like your enemy.
Yes! Avoid the weeds of policy and educate. People today don't know our history, about our labor movements, that we've been here before. That our grandfathers fixed it. How it was done. Dems talk without soul or passion. Reject the damn campaign consultants, find the storytellers, listen, and learn.
Bottom > upwards - Start in local and in small towns. Be so strong that neighboring communities can’t ignore it. One by one, we work together and push back from the base.
This is precisely what is wrong with the left. We are the working class. We are not elitists.
But we are a herd of cats, growling at each other instead of finding a common ground to stand on and protect with our lives if need be.
We need to have a very common cause of our issues. We were to afraid to step on moderates toes and capitulating to the moderates ended up causing us to lose energy amongst our base.
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Is annoying Democrats into fighting for working people an effective strategy? Because I am trying to flood my governor's mail room in hopes that will work.
Yes. You have my vote! I’ve been crying about corporate welfare and how we need to start taxing the top 10% including corporations like we did over 50 years ago. Both parties are guilty of not hitting this goal.
How exactly do dictatorships in the country with the strongest military the world has ever known get "won back"?
Total immunity
Supreme Court in his pocket
Senate
House
A layer of federal judges like Ailene Cannon
Please tell me the plan isn't grass roots, door knocking and getting friends to vote.
No.1 issue (and no other) standing in the way of change is the absolute monopoly of Fox News across this country. Add OAN, Newsmax and the Sinclair channels as well. Stop their barrage of misinformation on the majority of the U.S. and you’ll get a return to normalcy.
To be honest I’m very concerned about the debt. We really need to figure out how to bring more income into the government via taxes because our budgets are always in deficit and that deficit grows annually. It is an untenable path. My top goal is to have my own bad debt paid off by 2026. Come on USA
Corporations should have a tiered tax system as individuals do, to protect small business from getting taxed as the big corps should be. The top rate should be 33%. Capital gains should be 33%. Top rate of income tax should be 25%.
The top paid officer of a company should get paid a percentage of the average salary of all the employees under them. I don't know what that percentage should be, I have not worked out the numbers, but that ties the CEO's compensation to his employees and payroll.
To change this Dems need to either dumb it down and add some entertaining character as a future candidate and try to buy media companies to send this message or they need to educate the people on politics, government, and economics.
Professor, we need to maximize the reach of your message.
If Joe "Hey I'm Just Asking Questions Here" Rogan can interview vaccine skeptics, climate deniers, and believers in space alien encounters, surely he'd interrview someone with your bona fides. Would you be willing to do that?
We never lost them. I live in a very red state. Most of the people I know are grieving right now. If you honestly believe Kamala could generate Barrack Obama-level enthusiasm, and that didn’t translate to votes, I have some air to sell you.
We should take the path that Bernie Sanders set the groundwork of for the party
Left Populism
Blame billionaires, corporations and special interest lobbyists
Not immigrants, trans people or Hollywood elites
I hope Dems have the backbone. Citizens United has utterly corrupted campaigns. Drunk on cash they grease a media that gladly takes their money to cynically deliver horserace "news" and opinion. The orgy of corruption will be a huge challange to overcome. Right now, all the wrong people win.
Kamala was victim of combined racism & misogyny. There may not be racism like it was during 1790's but there is a soft racism even now which has to be worked.
US has best talents in the world but US was ignorant about 40% of people who can be easily exploited by people like putin. The recent results says if US doesn't focus on educating red states well, many hawks & hyenas will keep trying to ruin US.
I wouldn't completely agree there isn't racism in US. Obama was elected expecting to be subservient & in second term they didn't mess with him as he had influence. It showed up after his two terms. Hillary was hated for being assertive. Hating assertive woman is highest form of misogyny.
I think it’s white working Americans that are moving away from Dems. Black working Americans are locked in. Maybe the question is what are white working Americans looking for. Dems support their healthcare, higher wages, unions, and saved their pensions, so what do they really want?
Not just that. but also fight dis-information. And this weird love affair with liars and cheats.This cult of personality that TrAmp is, will kill this nation if we let it.
As long as they are in the minority that will be nothing but political theater. All the time left to prove themselves is the lame duck session. Anything they do after that is worthless! And pointless!
🚨START HERE: The single most effective thing to do is fuck up Musk as hard and as soon as possible, within all legal limits of the law, the Constitution, and the rules of war. Revoke his citizenship, declare him an enemy combatant, indict him, seize his companies, nationalize Starlink & SpaceX. NOW.
It's going to be a tough sell when you've got Nancy Pelosi and her investment portfolio getting amazing rates of return out here. Unapologetically going after the super wealthy includes the internal ones right?
We must raise the voices within the party who actually speak for the will of the people vs those at the top. Preferably those who are young and bold. There is nothing wrong with aspiring to be uber successful in our country as an individual and lifting up your neighbor at the same time.
But right now, so called "working Americans," have bought into the false narrative on the right;including the overt nationalism.What DEMS have to realize is that there are a lot of DEMS who are just as racist as many of the MAGA cult.Until that changes..they'll be on the outside licking their wounds
Americans need to go back to basic and rediscover their core values
Then they need to rethink how to protect those
The billionaires influence in politics is the problem
Not the billionaires per se
The people voted for change. The dems offered only a continuation of the status quo, where the economy was working great... for the structural inequality and the billionaires.
Trump offered to burn it down.
Your status quo is unendurable for many of us. We working poors are always in peril. You ignored our cries & then bullied us for not obeying you, our supposed masters. Now you're in peril too.
The status quo is unendurable. Time for a Workers' Party that puts people over profits. Greed kills.
Isn’t the bigger issue more about messaging. Harris did not do a good job of the economic progess in Biden admin. Yes prices are high but they are lot lower than before. She also did not focus on the adverse impacts of tarrifs.
It’s been interesting to see how quickly some mainstream Dems have come to this position over the last few days. The reaction to this election seems far different than 2016.
Trump enabled the billionaires to rig the economy through cartels & non competition - Even as congress gave away to the billionaires what amounted to be the lion's share of tax breaks denying them to the middle class- Capitalism is supposed to work for all Americans ; not only a few billionaires
We need to acknowledge the social issues and how they divided America. The transgender rights made many people go to the right. We need a counter to the term “woke” as rhetoric shapes a narrative which shapes thoughts and how people choose their Party.
I think we've learned that the message isn't the problem. Dems could show up in a red cape and force billionaires to buy everyone a flat screen TV, and a savvy MAGA candidate would be able to successfully spin it into a call for anti-superhero legislation.
💰Hit them in the wallet! 💰Today I deleted 🚫Home Depot / Walmart / Ace Hardware / Sephora 🚫acts & deleted apps from my phone. Plus waiting to hear back from Uber. I will not accept rides from any self driving car like 🚫Tesla ! 🚫
They won’t. You know this better than anyone…just as Biden will not take steps now…unprecedented steps…to quite literally save the semblance of remaining democracy. Late stage capitalism & it’s metamorphosis into facism…it’s a heinous thing…marked by action & inaction, both.
Not just dems. Every working class person in America needs to know that the rich have been robbing them for 40 years and trump is only changing which billionaires our taxes go to, and allowing them to steal more from us than they ever have.
It's not about Millionaires or Billionaires. It's about the shining city on the hill. Dems have never understood this. Also, you should study Horseshoe Theory. Altho I know you have.
It's not only them, it's the business class closest to the working class, the local car dealer, insurance man, agribusiness, store owners, restaurants, that all support billionaires/GOP.
Cool, why would they want to do that again? I mean half of congress is worth more than 1mil and have their own vested interests in these billionaires and corporations, and now that the guardrails are gone and justice is about to be weaponized fully, the benefit would be what?
Just look at one photo of the trump elites celebrating an event at MarALago and say THAT is what real America looks like. They’re an embarrassment to humanity.
Did you hear that 52 house democrats voted for a bill that would strip non-profits of their 5013-C status, therefore, their tax exempt status if they're suspected of supporting terrorists? Of course, supporting terrorists in the Trump area could be from Mercy Corps to BLM. It'll be a long road.
Wage disparity suggest we’re living in the 21st century equivalent of the 19th century Gilded Age.
Now billionaires assuage their guilt with exploding rockets and electric car batteries along with failed newspapers and social media platforms instead of libraries and non profit NPR foundations.
It's a good start. How to convince people they're the rubes in an intentionally economically rigged society? Too many aren't intelligent enough to understand and some are too stubborn to join the fight.
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But we are a herd of cats, growling at each other instead of finding a common ground to stand on and protect with our lives if need be.
Is annoying Democrats into fighting for working people an effective strategy? Because I am trying to flood my governor's mail room in hopes that will work.
Total immunity
Supreme Court in his pocket
Senate
House
A layer of federal judges like Ailene Cannon
Please tell me the plan isn't grass roots, door knocking and getting friends to vote.
If Joe "Hey I'm Just Asking Questions Here" Rogan can interview vaccine skeptics, climate deniers, and believers in space alien encounters, surely he'd interrview someone with your bona fides. Would you be willing to do that?
Left Populism
Blame billionaires, corporations and special interest lobbyists
Not immigrants, trans people or Hollywood elites
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Then they need to rethink how to protect those
The billionaires influence in politics is the problem
Not the billionaires per se
Trump offered to burn it down.
I suppose accelerationists are happy about it.
The status quo is unendurable. Time for a Workers' Party that puts people over profits. Greed kills.
Dems need to play the same game as MAGA.
Billionaires are stealing your wages, America.
They can emulate the wealthy with stock trading applications on their phones.
That older paradigm is gone. The best you can get out of them when they're abused is, "I guess he's smarter than me"
So where's the problem?
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I wished the oligarchs didn’t shut down Sanders’s campaign.
Now billionaires assuage their guilt with exploding rockets and electric car batteries along with failed newspapers and social media platforms instead of libraries and non profit NPR foundations.