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Over the next 5 years is exactly the kind of shit that doesn't help Democrats. They need stuff NOW. There are issues right now, not 5 years from now. If people are struggling, they don't care about a fucking 5 year plan. People will listen to guy who says they are going to fix things if you get rid if the other guy.
Unfortunately these are the voters Democrats have hitched their wagon to. White suburban men and women giveth and taketh away.
I'm convinced Dems are nothing more than the nation's "cleaning crew" when the GOP fucks up and goes too far. The second the clean up is complete or if voters don't feel that Dems are cleaning up fast enough, throw them out and vote back in the people that fucked up in the first place. Rinse and repeat.
Well he did promise to cancel student debt but then he changed his mind and said that he didn't know if he could do it and since then he has never brought it up again, maybe he will mention it again when he needs more voters in an election in the future
Well, for starters, we would need a progressive party to advocate for those policies.
No, for starters, we'd need an election season that was actually dictated by policy.
Lot of people treat kids as extensions themselves and/or their property so I'm not surprised at how parents act honestly.
For the love of... stop doing this! A Campaign needs way more than this, especially in a Post-Trump Presidency!
Yeah, an idea that's been formulating in my head for a while, supported by some research, is that issue politics basically don't matter for shit. The only two things that matter are the economy and identity politics. Marijuana legalization didn't move the needle because it didn't speak to either of those points. People don't care about issues. They care about their immediate economic circumstances, and they care about feeling like their sense of self-identity is being respected and represented. And since a whole bunch of people have their self identity wrapped up in being horrible cruel racists...
The times Dems do well is when they are driven by emotion (Obama 2008; getting rid of Trump 2016), or when Dems make bread and butter issues that directly impact people immediately their one number blaring issue of the campaign (GA senators making sure people get $2000 checks).
I would argue that as long as the Democratic Party continues to be the party that caters to upper-middle class suburbanites and urban profession we will never have an election "dictated by policy"
I'm not sure that, at any point in the country's history, certainly in the last 120 years, any election has ever been about policy. Its always about culture war bullshit, its just that sometimes that culture war shit is over class position and sometimes its not. But its never about laws and programs
