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.
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.
It sucks to realize in hindsight, but if Bernie had won the 2016 primary he would have been thoroughly ratfucked as a matter of bipartisan consensus. The Democrats would have sabotaged his national campaign at every step, probably even going as far as to have a few high profile Democrats endorse a third party candidate to make sure Bernie loses.
Look at what Labour did to Corbyn.
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The people who kill are not those who refuse to vote. It’s those that vote to kill.
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.
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.
Are you sure you saw the word “deliberate”?
How are my examples not deliberate?
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.
Did you even volunteer for Harris or donate to her campaign? 🙄
No shit.
Thanks, DNC and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Took an incredible upwelling of enthusiasm, energy, and grassroots engagement, and completely squandered it by nominating Hillary instead.
It still pisses me off. It should be the end of President Sanders’ second term.
It is difficult to get a campaign strategist to understand something when their
griftcareer path depends upon them not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair, probablyDNC won’t change unless heads roll. They just roll in the fund raising money, getting a president is just a bonus.
DNC won’t change
unless heads rollIt’s serving its purposes, why would it.
“The system is working as intended and must be destroyed.”
Yup.
Up next : did Marx have a point ?
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.
I hear that’s what historians are saying
i would vote for bernie in 2028 over newsome.
Love the guy (even if he seeks to save capitalism from itself, not replace it) but he is old.
I’ve been saying the same thing for like a decade now, but it’s not like the DNC actually cares.
When good ol’ Capt. Obvious feels like being a redundant dickcheese:
I listened to Bernie Sanders and voted for Joseph Robinette Brandon
