Progressives Urge Biden to Push Harder on ‘Greedflation’
Progressives Urge Biden to Push Harder on ‘Greedflation’
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I don't think Biden is interested in the progressive vote.
He knows he is the only choice to beat Trump, basicly a political monopoly
Its has the potential to lose him the election.
it wouldn't be the first time the Democratic party underestimated American voter apathy. To wit the Hilary Clinton campaign had a lot of hubris, too.
I urge Biden to drop out for a progressive candidate
Nobody cares. Nobody wants a progressive candidate, everyone wants a right-lite candidate, which Biden is. We've allowed corporations to completely take over our nation, and there is no non-violent way to bring it back.
That's not what the last 25 years of elections tell us.
When Democrats run on a progressive, or at least apparently progressive platform, they win, even if that's not how they ultimately govern (Obama 08, 12; Biden 20). Biden's 2020 platform was a lift and shift of every single one of Bernie's policy positions: His platform was Biden in name only. Obama's was also highly progressive. I'd put Gore in here too for a half point, considering that was basically a stolen election (SC decided Floridians voters didn't matter), and he ran almost competently on climate change; he won the popular vote and the EC, but the SC decided that wasn't relevant.
When they run center right candidates (Kerry 04, Hillary 16) and platforms, they lose.
Voters who show up and get Democrats elected into office have shown one thing:
Progressive candidates and platforms win you elections.
So this:
Nobody wants a progressive candidate
Is just a demonstrably false statement, easily rebutted by even a cursory glance at history.
Take the percentage of increase in price, along with the increase in profits, add in the percentage of how much less they spent in labor, and that's what you charge them for taxes on top of whatever drop in the bucket they were going to pay.