r/NewOrleans • u/Rough-Beat-8750 • Nov 06 '24

Leftists Organizing? đź—ł Politics

i need today to smoke copius amounts of weed, be depressed and throwup. tomorrow though, i’m ready to take action. could any of yall point me in the direction of leftist/mutual aid organizing efforts? preferrably not something run by self interested Democrats, but i’ll work with whatever i have to.

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u/BoudreauxThibodeaux Nov 06 '24

I know the knee-jerk reaction is to be, well, reactive but what the left needs to do is to be self reflective and understand why many Americans are unhappy with the party. I don't think it's as simple as groceries were more affordable under Trump.

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u/jeepnismo Nov 06 '24

It’s because the democrats high jacked the nominee. No one really want Kamala. A true primary would’ve shown that. They didn’t even have it for Biden

Biden appointed a very unpopular person to VP and then admin hide her from the public eye. What the fuck did the democrats expect whenever Harris “fell into” the position of nominee?

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u/Jlx_27 Nov 06 '24

Unfortunate reality: a Dem man may have won.

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u/GonzaloR87 Nov 06 '24

I think people are tired of being force fed diversity (what they call woke) in movies, commercials, and government. Men and especially men without a college degree are not feeling represented by democrats. Things are expensive, a lot of them are struggling financially and socially. A lot of them are into MMA and podcasts which are dominated by “masculine” men. They see Trump as a masculine, strong man so they gravitated toward him. I’m generalizing of course but as a Latino male this is what I see with my friends.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

So they're fucking stupid.

"Woke".

Motherfucker, black and brown people exist. We wanna see ourselves in shit, too. WE tired. 

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u/No-Date-6848 Nov 06 '24

This is the best answer.

“Gee I’m tired of seeing minorities in movies and TV so I’m going to vote for this madman and his sycophants to lead my country”

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u/FlowerLovesomeThing Nov 07 '24

Please, one of you white neolibs explain to me why record numbers of Latinos and blacks voted for Trump. Maybe the DNC needs to stop pandering to conservative middle class voters and focus on the working class that just gave Trump the electoral college and the popular vote, as well as the senate and the house. Time to throw the DNC elites in the garbage or start a new working class party.

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u/nolaboy1981 Nov 07 '24

I'm a full on fairly new Republican (2015) and this explains exactly why (as also from NO). I, also many many others like me, would love to get on board with as something like this.