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Honestly call or email the Democratic party offices and voice that you one hundred percent agree with Sanders.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 89 points 3 days ago (6 children)

"do you really think that the Democratic party is going to the mat… and fighting for you?"

Forget about me, or the working class, the Democratic party doesn't actually fight for anything.

2000 election stolen in Florida? Ho hum, oh well... we'll get 'em next time! (2004 election stolen in Ohio...)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/29/uselections2000.usa

https://www.wired.com/2008/03/the-mysterious/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-it-guru-dies-in-plane-crash/

You rightly nominated a Supreme Court Justice but the Senate refuses to give them a hearing? Oh well! Guess we'll just have to win the 2016 election...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrick_Garland_Supreme_Court_nomination

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shes nodding to the corporste over lords. She's saying:

don't worry, we will never betray your riches kisses feet we will fight for your continued market dominance and wealth inequality

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago

She is a corporate overlord. The old witch couldn’t care less about normal, poor people.

She deserves to be treated like a queen of france.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 40 points 3 days ago

Well I don't respect Pelosi, so I feel like we've got balance here

[–] JBar2@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (9 children)

The Republicans are doing zero for the working class other than lying to them and giving their money yo billionaires.

Dems supported unions where Trump impugned them

Dems forgave student loans, Republicans went to court to stop it

Dems pushed to end noncompetes for the average worker, Republicans went to court to stop it

Dems passed the CHIPS act to bring good paying jobs to multiple communities

Dems passed an infrastructure bill while Trump had 100 infrastructure weeks that accomplished nothing

Trump said he'd fire workers rather than pay them overtime

Harris promised to investigate price gouging, Trump is supported by the oligarchy

Etc, etc

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Which indicates that policy is secondary to messaging. On every substantive policy metric, Democrats are better than Republicans. People even say they prefer Democratic policies over Republicans' when polled, by wide margins. So it must be the messenger and the way the message is being conveyed that is losing elections. That's not to say that policies don't matter, they absolutely do, but if you've got great policies and shit messaging, then you're not going to win voters over, no matter how much better you are.

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All of those things you posted sound good, but if you look at the details and execution, it's either a pathetically laughable attempt or something they should have done 3 years ago.

Prosecute companies for wage theft.

Start splitting up monopolies at the beginning of your presidency or vice presidency, not at the end.

Don't destroy the train union and then pretend that you're pro-union because you went to one picket line. And as I recall, it was Joe who went.

When you push for non-competes or you push for student loan forgiveness, and the Republicans find legal ways to stop your efforts, find other legal ways to continue your efforts. If you just shrug your shoulders and say we tried, but we couldn't make your lives better, of course nobody is going to think that you meant a word you said.

The Democrat said 4 years to deliver, or at least to show that they tried very hard to deliver, and they chose to do neither of those. Which is sad.

And if Harris is telling us what she wants to do in the future, we're immediately going to ask why she and Joe didn't already do it in the past. When we don't get an answer, we just shrug our shoulders. It's more of the same from Washington politicians. Democrats in Washington certainly represent somebody, but that somebody isn't you and me.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Pelosi needs to fade away into the sunset

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Sanders is right, and people are right to be.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 56 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Big bussiness is scared that if given the chance bernie would win and they cant risk that.

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly call or email the Democratic party

Do it because it will be cathartic, but don't do it expecting them to listen. Progressives need a new tack if we're actually going to save humanity from ourselves. (Spoiler, we probably won't)

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[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 40 points 3 days ago

It is a rare moment when you can pinpoint issues that Bernie Sanders was on the wrong side of, even with the benefit of hindsight. Because of that, I have more faith in Bernie Sanders' wisdom than any other politician at the moment.

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