[Opinion] Democrats Will Keep Losing Until They Cut Ties With Billionaires and Corporations
[Opinion] Democrats Will Keep Losing Until They Cut Ties With Billionaires and Corporations
Progressive movement leader Alexandra Rojas writes for Zeteo that those in charge of the Democrats’ 2024 campaign should have been fired a long time ago.
Progressive movement leader Alexandra Rojas writes for Zeteo that those in charge of the Democrats’ 2024 campaign should have been fired a long time ago.
You can't be both pro-labor and pro-corporate. Corporate support may fund your campaign, but labor support gets you the votes and that is what matters in the end.
Really? Cause Trump got the votes and he's definitely pro corporate.
Yeah, but he says things at his rallies that make him appear pro-labor. Never mind his history, never mind his intent - Trump attempts to have the right optics, and in politics that matters way more than objective facts on policy (unfortunately). This works way better than what the Dems did fucking around with the likes of Mark Cuban and Liz Cheney while pretending Bidenomics helps anyone but mega corps.
They mean you can’t BE both. Not that you can’t sucker voters.
Sadly, there's a lot of people with a lot of power in the party who'd rather lose than do that.
Seems pretty obvious to me that the only reason most high-ranking politicians climbed up through the political system in the first place, regardless of the party, was the goal of establishing self-serving ties with billionaires and corporations. They're not here to represent us, they're here to get paid a whole bunch of money to do the job of telling us they're here to represent us.
Well, I guess they'll keep getting what they want then. But that's also unsustainable.
Plus those who do try usually get pushed out
Bernie did what he did without it. All he needed was the DNC tag of DEM.
Here’s the difference. GOP let Trump win the nomination and he redefined the party. The DNC didn’t let Bernie win the nomination so the needed transformation never happened.
Granted, I suspect the willingness to play ball re money decided both those actions.
he lost the primary by wide margin, how did they “not let him win”?
Margins are irrelevant in primaries since the vote in at least the last half of states avalanches to the presumed winner.
There is more to rigging elections than fucking with the vote. In a primary that spans over a month it's really easy for the media to create narratives to drive low information voters wherever the establishment wants them to go.
Even that wasn't enough to beat Sanders in 2020, so they had every establishment candidate but Biden drop out and endorse Biden right before Super Tuesday. They also had Clyburn make a surprise endorsement in South Carolina so all the black churches would direct their congregations that way.
On top of all that, Elizabeth Warren refused to drop out even though she ended campaign operations and effectively went into hiding. This is the only part of the plan that doesn't have direct evidence, but the establishment definitely got to Warren somehow, either with a stick, a carrot, or both. Warren and Bernie split the progressive vote, and yada yada yada, Trump won in 2024.
Thanks Obama
money is a hell of a drug
Lose forever it is then
Hey, I was gonna say that!
So they’ll keep losing. Got it.
Something has happened which nobody probably not even Republicans thought could happen. Reality does not have liberal bias.
Democrats are still operating on this assumption. They figure people will vote for them by virtue of some 60/40 (or whatever unbalanced) scale that naturally leans left. Unfortunately I don't think they have gotten the wake up call even now. They cannot just do whatever the fuck (like being a party of the rich) under the assumption that if they get enough people to vote regardless of political affiliation then they will win.
It’s why Harris grew her support among voters making over $100,000 a year and lost support among voters making less.
This has been very evident on certain parts of the internet. Especially spaces where the tech workers hang out. They all talk like they can identify with working class folk. You simply cannot point out they are out of touch with the working class without causing them serious brain malfunction.
"B-but my
avocado toastcost of living", fuck I wish they would can it already. Nobody making over $100,000, certainly not well above that is struggling that hard. You aren't. Sorry (not really) but that's the facts. Always some wise guy got to chime in with some anecdote about how they personally are though.It's not just the party Democrats but liberals and leftists making over $100,000 a year who live in another reality. One where they are the stuffy old rich people. Only they do not see themselves this way. They are having a very hard time seeing it. This is where the Republicans were pre-Trump. The dead end party stuck in their old rich people ways. The tables have turned.
That includes you, millennials. Yes, you the rich ones. You are rich old people now.
Which is as functionally insane as anything else in this country because Republicans are double the level of corruption and in bed with the wealthy elites.
Republicans give people a narrative and an enemy. Democrats tell people who are broke that they should stop complaining because a line went up on some graph.
I'm not saying that it's rational, but that's the reason. I'm noticing that the murdered CEO stirred up some fun narratives. Maybe the Democrats could work with that. If the dude gets caught, he should run in 2028. Apparently felonies don't matter.
Yeah, telling poor people to "GET GUD" since the economy is great TM was a wild election move.
Where else would they get their money, before and after election times and mid-terms?
You can't separate economic base interests from the governing superstructure, Jack, unless you change the former
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This presupposes that the Dem party's leadership haven't been fully commanded by the class interests of professional managerial class, who benefits from those high corporate salaries, possible stock options, from their shareholder/financial rentier capital owners, and act as its clean P.R campaign managers (they had one job but they f-d up).
The Reps. do overlap in this regard, albeit on lesser scale, having their leadership's class interests also, if not usually on settler-colonial-originated petty-bourgeois constituents, who get their calls from literal landlords, et agricultural-rentier capital, opting for 'natural monopolies' (they're the ones who get their hands dirty; dems invest in it)
Most industrial capital owning constituents have been convinced over to rentierism that is western-hegemonic neoliberalism/monopoly capitalism, or dare I say, imperialism.
If the Dems are the ones providing logistics, the Reps are the ones mostly loading and shooting at us, though for the sake of bipartisanship, the dems won't hesitate to.
Where else would they get their money, before and after election times and mid-terms?
That's democratic capitalism working as designed, baby
[Opinion] That Will Never Happen
Maybe a third party will be viable again some day...
Not without rank choice voting first. Without it the concept of wasting votes will prevail.
The Democrats are wasting our votes anyway
It's a start, but they're going to have to do more than that.