1. At the risk of being reductive, my disagreement here is that I think base is more important than superstructure, that material realities (including the social relations they create) are more important ideology. In sum, existence precedes essence. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1247930492286111746 …
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3. Here is the reality of the generational divide: Americans over 45 or 50 grew up in a country that had many flaws but basically worked. The racism, misogyny, homophobia were there and had to be fought but on a basic economic level the country provided jobs & pensions.
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4. Democrats over 45 buy into the Clinton-Obama-Biden worldview (that America is fundamentally a functioning society which needs fixing) because that's their experience of life. The under 45 set have had a very different experience of an American that on basic level doesn't work
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5. If you are under 45, your adult experience of the United States consists of Bush/Gore, 9/11, Iraq & Afghanistan fiasco, Katrina meltdown, 2008 meltdown, slow and partial recovery, Trump, and now COVID-19 fuck ups & new depression.
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6. So Biden does have an enthusiasm problem, one that is particularly acute among the very voters who were more likely to sit out 2016 or voted third party: young voters (including young POC), former Democrats in rural areas,
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7. I took a dive into Biden's enthusiasm problem by talking to activists in Pennsylvania who have spent the last few years trying to win back the marginal voters drifting away from the Democrats. Worth listening to them!https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrat-pa-biden-problem/ …
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^why Biden is the nominee
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I follow all four of them to various degrees and consider them pretty unimportant generally speaking. I have a DSA friend with a Bernie Sanders tattoo(!) who listened to one episode of Chapo and loathed it and would hate Liz Bruenig and the whole concept of the anti-choice left
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like these are enjoyable and cathartic forms of media for me, but they are not actually the voices of a movement in the way that they're presented to be on Twitter. How can podcasts with ~500,000 listeners speak for 8 million voters?
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This is only partly true, like fox news & the gop the echo chamber works both ways
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The vast majority of the electorate aren't on Twitter and have never heard of them. The vicious battles of the internet don't always translate to life as it is lived
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yeah, it is clear that Chapo looms large in the heads of NY media circles and the Bruenigs are considered serious DC intellectuals but like most people do not know what any of that is. Felix Biederman could endorse Biden tomorrow, without supporting M4A it won't do any good
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