• Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    They’re right. They put together a well constructed argument for his position and you simply ignored all of it.

    Harris ran a failed strategy of moving to the right and ‘business as usual’ when people want actual progressive policies that will address their material needs.

    Neoliberalism will always move to the right and normalize fascist ideology over improving the livelyhood of the working class. Progressive policies are popular with Republican voters too, that’s the correct way to fracture the Republican base into voting Democrat.

    Conceding to right-wing policies and disinformation, like on immigration, only alienates more of the Democratic base while bolstering Republican voters support for the Republican party.

    Polls on campaign messaging

    How to Win a Swing Voter in Seven Days

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    Polls on policy

    How Trump and Harris Voters See America’s Role in the World

    Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college

    Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones

    Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind

    Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support

    Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies

    Tim Walz’s Progressive Policies Popular With Republicans in Swing States

    I voted for Harris and told others to do so too. Doesn’t change the fact that it was her campaign strategy that was responsible for the loss of millions in voter turnout. All the evidence and polling show that running on popular progressive policies that represent a change and improve the material conditions of the American public was the right way to boost voter turnout, the fact that she instead went to the right was a calculated decision that completely failed.

    Edit: pronouns

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      14 days ago

      At the risk of being a pedant, no reason to think that person is a man. They did articulate the argument tho, for sure. And you did too.

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      13 days ago

      But the left doesn’t seem to care or are not motivated. The right has their shit together and people are voting even if they don’t agree or think everything trump has said. Where the left just seem to say oh I don’t agree with x I’m not voting. Roy vs wade is a great example they kept on pecking at it till they got it and the left bever got it into law thinking this is good enough.

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        13 days ago

        If by left you mean the Democratic Party I agree. It’s important to recognize that the Democratic Party is for the most part running on the platform of neoliberalism. That’s been the case since Third Way Politics. The issue is that, while the Democratic Base is progressive, the Democratic Party is instead still centered on neoliberalism.

        That’s an important distinction because neoliberalism is fundamentally at odds with progressive legislation that improves the material conditions of the American public, at the expense of capital accumulation of corporations.

        There are only a small amount of progressive Democrats within the Democratic Party, which include Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the rest of The Squad. As a whole, even the Democratic Party works against progressive policy which is exactly why we’ve been seeing this disconnect between the Party and the Base.

        Progressive policies and change can only be created and mobilized through grassroots movements. Republican policies, on the other hand, are entirely funded by corporate profits. That includes the entire manosphere, from think tanks like the Heritage Foundation to Fix News to individual conservative content creators like Ben Shapiro.

        That’s precisely why we need to organize more. Neither of the two parties have the interest of the working class at heart. Only by creating our own organization like through groups like the DSA and Unions do we have any kind of power to demand progressive policies that will improve our livelyhood and communities