I think the “Dems have to push a more aggressive economic agenda in order to get white votes” crowd is dumb and loud and wrong, but I’m grateful that they gateway drug’d me to actual socialists, lol.
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I don’t really think that’s true either, honestly. Again, Dems should have a more aggressive economic agenda bc it is smart and good, but I’m not all that convinced it’ll motivate many new voters til it gets passed, if then.
And the fault lines among existing voters are, I think, mostly on social issues, or even economic issues as viewed through a social/identity/tribal lens. I think Republicans could get a meaningful governing majority on racist populism bc disproportionate political power.
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The problem is, voters HAVE been promised better healthcare and better jobs by every president and every politician probably ever. The issue, I think, is more about trust than platform. And also concrete barriers to voting, which we should work to remove.
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Idk. Clinton promised health care reform. Obama promised health care reform. Is Medicare-For-All really so much more persuasive than whatever Clinton and Obama were promising on the campaign trail?
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But their corporate overlords will probably never let them do that, so we’ll probably have a long period of occasional bursts of unified control followed by long stretches of obstructionism and stalemates until we resolve the social issues people are so upset over.
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