cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26289830

Summary

Democrats must reclaim their identity as the party of the working class to regain electoral strength.

Despite pro-labor policies under Biden, working-class voters feel disconnected, seeing Democrats as defenders of a failing system.

The party’s decline traces back to NAFTA and neoliberal economic policies that favored corporations over workers.

A generational effort to prioritize labor rights, fair wages, and economic security while addressing working-class frustrations are needed.

Without serious reform, Democrats will continue losing ground to populist alternatives.

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[+] 55 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Last elections.

    Since, like, 2012 at least.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Carter's reelection. When they abandoned New Deal politics.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    True, true. I just say 2012 because it's contemporary enough to still be relevant to modern politics and obviously followed Obama's disappointing 1st term, which had a huge grassroots, "we're gonna make some real changes" feel to it. But you're right that's it's been a while since we had a president/candidate even close to left of center

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yeah, not a chance of that happening.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    You guys need a new party, one that is actually left

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Our system makes 3rd parties nonviable. But at this point, even that seems potentially more successful than Dems just continually sliding "center" (AKA right).

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Spoiler: they won’t

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    "Democrats must become the workers party again now that it's too late"

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Like the British labour party. They won't become the workers party, they will continue to pander to the capitalists, landlords and bosses, even when the writings on the wall with liberalism and the harm its caused to the lower and middle class.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I can think of nothing less progressive than trying to redirect activist energy into a failed capitalist party like the Democrats.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Kinda like how Hitler started spreading his rhetoric with workers. Get fucked, fascists. We need a real workers party, from the ground up. Not a rebranded rainbow capitalist party. Democrats are useless and should be abandoned.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    let's give the new dnc chair, who comes from the minnesota dfl*, a chance, eh?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Martin

    https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ken-martin-dnc-chair-election/

    * that's minnesota's democrat-farmer-laborer party

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Time for a good ol grass roots push. That's how the republicans turned into a dumpstet fire.

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    [+] -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    It's hilarious all the people pissing into the wind of pro-union, pro-worker, pro-regulation, pro-environmental policies by voting Republican and acting like Democrats don't do all of these things lmfao.

    Hell look at every comment in here so far. It doesn't matter how well Democrat policies, how much they publish the information, how many people share it on social media, Fox news and other posters still parrot bullshit that gets pedaled far and wide. Their propaganda machine is far better at muting any effort they attempt to show it, let alone without holding the areas of government they need to enact serious legislative change.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    The democrats pretend to want to do those things but somehow those pesky republicans keep stopping them. Now that it's their turn as the opposition, though, oh well, nothing they can do. It's the republicans' government now.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    On the money. The Democrats don't have an effective propaganda machine. FFS, look what Fox News and the Russian meme machine has done to us. So, where's the liberal machine? 🦗🦗🦗

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