3d ago

Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

newrepublic.com Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26289830

Summary
Democrats must reclaim their identity as the party of the working class to regain electoral strength.
Despite pro-labor policies under Biden, working-class voters feel disconnected, seeing Democrats as defenders of a failing system.
The party’s decline traces back to NAFTA and neoliberal economic policies that favored corporations over workers.
A generational effort to prioritize labor rights, fair wages, and economic security while addressing working-class frustrations are needed.
Without serious reform, Democrats will continue losing ground to populist alternatives.

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Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again

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Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again. Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.

newrepublic.com /article/192078/democrats-become-workers-party-sherrod-brown

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They were told that during the last election and did not listen, correction, they ignored us.
- Last elections.
  Since, like, 2012 at least.
  
  Carter's reelection. When they abandoned New Deal politics.
  
  Nader was also a populist

I can think of nothing less progressive than trying to redirect activist energy into a failed capitalist party like the Democrats.

Yeah, not a chance of that happening.
- Yeah, move away from the small dollar (grassroots) donors! What a great way to represent the electorate! We're beyond cooked.
  
  Everyone knows large-dollar donors always have more popular opinions, and they're always right, anyway. Otherwise where would they get all those large dollars?
- Mr Overton, shift your window to the right. Yes, again. And again …

You guys need a new party, one that is actually left
- Our system makes 3rd parties nonviable. But at this point, even that seems potentially more successful than Dems just continually sliding "center" (AKA right).
  
  Two parties, two big corporate parties, too big to fail, even when that's all they do.
  
  We gotta organize and do what Maga threatened to do to the right. Maga threatened to split the right which dragged the whole republican party further right. Let's do the same with the democrats. Force the party more progressive.
  
  You got it. At some point you'll have to bite the bullet unless you want MAGA forever.

Spoiler: they won’t

Like the British labour party. They won't become the workers party, they will continue to pander to the capitalists, landlords and bosses, even when the writings on the wall with liberalism and the harm its caused to the lower and middle class.

"Democrats must become the workers party again now that it's too late"

Kinda like how Hitler started spreading his rhetoric with workers. Get fucked, fascists. We need a real workers party, from the ground up. Not a rebranded rainbow capitalist party. Democrats are useless and should be abandoned.

let's give the new dnc chair, who comes from the minnesota dfl, a chance, eh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Martin
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ken-martin-dnc-chair-election/
that's minnesota's democrat-farmer-laborer party

Time for a good ol grass roots push. That's how the republicans turned into a dumpstet fire.

It's hilarious all the people pissing into the wind of pro-union, pro-worker, pro-regulation, pro-environmental policies by voting Republican and acting like Democrats don't do all of these things lmfao.
Hell look at every comment in here so far. It doesn't matter how well Democrat policies, how much they publish the information, how many people share it on social media, Fox news and other posters still parrot bullshit that gets pedaled far and wide. Their propaganda machine is far better at muting any effort they attempt to show it, let alone without holding the areas of government they need to enact serious legislative change.
- The democrats pretend to want to do those things but somehow those pesky republicans keep stopping them. Now that it's their turn as the opposition, though, oh well, nothing they can do. It's the republicans' government now.
- On the money. The Democrats don't have an effective propaganda machine. FFS, look what Fox News and the Russian meme machine has done to us. So, where's the liberal machine? 🦗🦗🦗
- The Democrats don't listen to the workers or if they do, they act pretty hostile to what they say.
  Guns for instance.
- Yeah, it looks like brigading. It’s the same taking points repeated in posts like these that are reposted across multiple instances.

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