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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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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Wow, your publication would be stunned to hear that considering what they said about the economic system during that time period.
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Darned few people get pensions. I’d agree with others, you’re talking federal/state workers, military and academia, else people over 70.
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"(straight, white, male) Americans"
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as the founding fathers intended (this is a joke)
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