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.

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.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    yeah the party of insider trading will definitely be the workers’ party if you wish it hard enough.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Assuming they spent every dollar her husband made in his life while being an investment banker, and just put her wages in, using 10% average growth (10 year average is over that for the Stock market).

          She is below average for the market. She’d be worth about 210 million. But she’s way lower than that in real life.

          When you can deposit $174,000 to income annually into the market… You arent playing the same struggles that we are.

          Her money would very likely check out, you have to remember she’s been in office for 48 years. That’s a long fucking time. She was at JFK’s inauguration as a 20 year old student studying to become a Congress member.

          I don’t think she’s a good person, but when people accuse her I think they overlook how long she’s worked

          • Majorllama@lemmy.world
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            5 days ago

            This is satire right? It’s painfully obvious that she is insider trading and has been doing so along with her husband for years.

            She just casually outperforms all the best stock traders in the world every year for the last 40+ years.

            • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              4 days ago

              Not only is this exaggerated and false, her buying in selling is now online which I think shouldn’t happen but I understand why they did so. Since being online it has still out performed them, and shown no insider trading. So if you want to bring some evidence I’d be glad to look at it but this claim has been so widely said people just accepted it like much of what Trump says. The number of Republicans and Democrats who have wanted Pelosi gone is extraordinarly high (often for good reasons), if there was evidence of it they would have used it to bring her down and put her in jail. Instead it appears she has invested in mostly tech companies over “40 years” and done well because of it.

  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Just hopping back on lemmy to see if we’re still doing the “blame Democrats for literally everything” thing.

    Yeah?

    Cool.

    Ok bye, dumbasses

  • Ronno@feddit.nlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Ignorant Dutchman here:

    What’s stopping anyone from starting a new Workers’ party in the US? A multi party system seems more favorable than its current state.

    • rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 days ago

      first-past-the-post voting is the most common system in the States (and most prominent in presidential elections) which generally means additional parties rising to prominence will almost assuredly split the vote with the closest party so a new worker’s party will have to magically eclipse and obliterate the Democratic party overnight or they will both lose to the Republicans indefinitely.

      • Ronno@feddit.nlEnglish
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        4 days ago

        So if I understand it correctly, there is literally nothing stopping anyone in the US to start such a party and participate. The only thing is that the party might not accumulate enough votes to be of relevance. It might be worth a shot if there is sufficient momentum (which currently there seems to be from my arm chair point of view).

        • rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3 days ago

          Sounds right, it’s just an all-or-nothing gambit or both you and the major party you align with would lose big.

          You’ll have to appeal to the masses, get them willing to vote since voter turnout is not good, get awareness and enough energy to convince people to gamble on a vote for your third party since if each only get half of all voters on “their” side, the opposition wins. All while fighting the established party and all the funds, big names, etc. that empower it.

          Heck, the US Democratic party has seemingly been willing to lose democracy than allow any progressive candidates to rise in the party.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Biden’s pro-union moves are historic, but voters need more than symbolism. Effectively outlines the problem and proposes actionable solutions.

    🐱🐱🐱🐱

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      The problem is that the voters do need symbolism. Voters are too stupid and propagandized to know what actions a party actually takes. Symbolism is all that matters. You can even just straight up lie and these dumbasses will believe it.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    No shit. Now convince the democratic party leadership that winning elections is more important that kissing donor ass.

    • ClassStruggle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Their goal is never to win elections. Their only goal is to prevent leftist movements and organization from gaining positions of power. To defend these status quo.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Wouldn’t be surprised if you are in a situation where it needs to get worse before it can get better. Vote 3rd party so heavily that it kills one of the major parties. All the people that didn’t turn up vote for someone else?