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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice

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Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice | Jared Abbott and Bhaskar Sunkara
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To defeat Trumpism, progressives must crib from FDR’s book and call out economic inequality and plutocracy
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    They won’t. The party exists to serve the rich.

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      Yeah, they know, and it scares them.

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        There’s a reason they sidelined Sanders when he would have easily won in 2016

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          This has been on my mind every time the DNC tries to position themselves as a party for the people. As far as I’m concerned, they showed their hand, and apparently they thought no one would notice.

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            if some people here are any indication, there are a bunch of people who didnt actually notice.

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            There is nowhere to run.

            Democrats = the party of the rich
            Republicans = the party of the rich
            MAGA = the grift of the rich

            We’re going to be voting for the lesser evil for at least a few more cycles. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea not to vote though.

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              We can be so much more creative than that. There are mountains of actions we can take in addition to voting to change things.

              Why should we accept that the only people we can vote for are evil? Every US election has been this way for at least 20 years now. One less than the other everytime (depending on perspective) but if the only options are widely seen as evil, we must do something to change this.

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                We don’t have to accept it—that’s what primaries are for. But there are people out there who lose the primary and then they just don’t vote—that is the time people should choose the lesser of two evils. Simply not voting is just giving up the tiny shred of control you actually have.

                Of course, if you feel strongly about a candidate, it is a good idea to make calls, put up signs, or anything else to help them win. But, as we saw with Bernie, even a massive grassroots effort isn’t always enough.

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                  We don’t have to accept it—that’s what primaries are for. But there are people out there who lose the primary and then they just don’t vote—that is the time people should choose the lesser of two evils.

                  No. They should not. Stop lecturing people who are fighting something better and start lecturing the people voting for absolute trash in the primaries.

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            Just remember Bernie’s legacy…

            https://youtu.be/ZlZaVtCT5HI

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          Do you have polls that agree with that statement?

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            Almost all of the head to head polls Had Bernie doing better than Hillary

            He also won the Wisconsin primary and the Michigan primary in spite of the DNC leadership and propaganda machine being firmly behind Hillary from the beginning.

            Hillary lost those states, ultimately costing her the election, and there’s no indication that Bernie would have lost any of the states she won.

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              I’m pretty sure Bernie won a lot of primaries. He got 72% of the vote in Washington: https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/primaries/washington

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                They singled out those two states because they were ones Hillary lost in the general

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                Yup, he did, and he would have won the general.

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