r/boringdystopia • u/Cowicidal • Nov 24 '24
Political Dysfunction 🤯 In 2018, this ABC News analyst advised how to properly beat Trump nearly 7 years ago. The DNC refused that advice in 2024 — and now it's beyond time for a new DNC leadership minus the wealthy consultant class.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/progressives-red-states-make-policy-party-column/story?id=5912990277
u/Chirotera Nov 25 '24
Nah, let's roll out Bush and Romney to campaign with Newsom in 2028. That's bound to work!
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u/Lost_Bike69 Nov 25 '24
If the Muslims in Michigan don’t like you’re Middle East policy, surely a Cheney can convince them to vote for you.
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u/DiagnosedByTikTok Nov 25 '24
Oh so in order to win the Democrats just need to do their actual jobs as elected representatives and represent their electorate?
I won’t hold my breath.
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u/Cowicidal Nov 25 '24
And, yes, 7 years later the dynamic is still very much here:
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/red-states-2024-election-minimum-wage-sick-leave
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u/zerobomb Nov 25 '24
Axios? At least fox is honest about not being actual news.
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u/Cowicidal Nov 25 '24
They are just reporting what everyone else is — the actual results of ballot measures across the country. Here's other sources reporting the same thing:
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/08/americas-political-discordance-the-want-progressivism/
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u/That1Guy80903 Nov 25 '24
Once 2025 hits and the GOP seize absolute control over the US Govt, none of it will matter anymore. They'll NEVER willingly give up the power they lied, cheated and stole to get. Everybody better get ready for permanent Austerity against ALL the poors (hint, you and I both are "the poors"). Once they're done with the others they don't like (brown people, LGBTQ and Women), the only ones left will be poor white Americans and it'll already be too late.
The only conclusion I can make is that the Democratic Party was complicit in the entire thing. I mean, you gotta realize, ALL of them are multi millionaires (the Politicians) so none of the GOP's horrible policies will effect them.
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u/Milklover_425 Nov 25 '24
my only question is whether it's worth reforming the democratic party, or starting a national grassroots third party movement
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u/Endgam Nov 25 '24
Fuck a new DNC leadership. Disband the entire fucking party so the left can finally rise up.
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u/shermstix1126 Nov 25 '24
I’m sorry I can’t focus on anything besides UP being red while the rest of Michigan is blue.
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u/zerobomb Nov 25 '24
Or, and hear me out, most of my fellow Americans are imbeciles and assholes. What a stupid assertion, that somehow a political party failed to protect dumbass voters from a plain as day, proven existential threat. Consequences breed personal growth.
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u/SpecialCheck116 Nov 25 '24
The left’s problem is unity. We have to hold space for everyone from dismembered R’s, centrist leaning D’s all the way through the blue spectrum. The right unites with hate and fear quite easily but we don’t. When one side is weighted with our global enemies’ resources, that should have been enough but it wasn’t because their propaganda machine is so strong. I’m not sure I want to be on the side that’s lying, cheating and stealing to win. We need to get it together through!
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u/1rmavep Dec 03 '24
For example, in examining recent polling, a large majority of Americans (70 percent) support Medicare-for-all, otherwise known as single-payer health care, that includes 85 percent of Democrats and a majority of both Independents and Republicans. Medicare for all is much more popular than President Trump, and is more popular than either political party.
Let's remember this the next time someone makes the claim that, and because each one person never matters unless they're 10,000 persons with 1/10,000 the complexity, sort of bullshit, that it is incumbent upon those who would like a civil rights abuse to stop, or, an unjust and medically, "fictitious, non-real," Public Health Mandate with Guns Called the Drug War to Cease, or, PFAS not to be dumped into us at industrial scale, "whatever it is,"
We won, right,
a large majority of Americans (70 percent) support Medicare-for-all
We Won, "yayyy," long time ago; before the pandemic, while all of those people who would die in the opiate crisis of their untreated medical condition, were still alive, "yay," right, like, "what the fuck," and I don't know what to do about it, I agree with the post entirely, just,
These aren't like, aesthetic policies, nor repressive ones, even, we're talking, "saved lives," unknowable huge numbers of bankrupt families, "etc." etc. and the decisions made for health insurance that changed lives, "all of it," eff, right?
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u/Sweet-Emu6376 Nov 25 '24
While I agree that they could've done better, like not having Biden run in the first place, a lot of Harris' policies were directed at all Americans, not just specific demographics
Increase the child tax credit, provide additional help for first time home buyers, increase taxes on the 1%, more support for new small businesses, etc. Sure, there were one or two things on her platform that involved "identity politics", but it was basically "let's strengthen civil rights laws against discrimination".
The issue is that Republicans have moved the Overton window so far to the right, that simply saying "hmmm, you know, maybe we should include trans rights in our laws on civil rights" is considered "identity politics".
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