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Sanders: Harris Lost After Democrats “Abandoned Working Class People” (truthout.org)

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“The American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” Sanders said.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You don't have to convince them that the GOP hates them. You need to put your money with your mouth is and actually introduce policy changes benefitting the working class and publicize them in a way that even the dumbest person can understand.

Politics are complicated. The economy is complicated. Even completely capable people don't invest the time to understand them because they don't need to know the details about either to get by in life. Especially true if they're struggling to get by.

We need Bernie Sanders policies with Katie Porter delivery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Politics are complicated.

People are fucking stupid and care more about in-group good-feels than reality or policy.

Many Trump supporters like feeling like they are part of a larger group. That's it. That's really, deeply, stupid. Like, dogs are smarter than that. But they see the symbols and the faces and feel good about themselves.

Some people are deeply racist or sexist and such, but a lot of people just want to feel like they're part of a group.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

What I said is still true. They'd care if they understood but they lack the incentive out ability to so they go with the flow of that they people around them say

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You need to put your money with your mouth is and actually introduce policy changes benefitting the working class and publicize them in a way that even the dumbest person can understand.

But they did and they tried to repeat it for over a year leading up to the election, even before Biden stepped down. The MAGA cult is utterly irrational and literally live in an alternate reality. It's going to take a generation or longer for that hysteria to die out, if it even does.

As for getting the 10+ million former Democrat voters out, that's a whole other set of reasons.

Honestly, in my opinion, the US is just way too varied and spread out to cater to everyone needed in order to win under our current electoral college system. It's literally impossible without straight up giving empty promises/lies (which is what the GOP is doing). The next best solution is ranked choice voting and getting rid of the first-past-the-post system. Our country is just too large with too much variety for only two parties.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

and publicize them in a way that even the dumbest person can understand.

Not doing this part is a key point of failure.