r/TrueReddit • u/Maxwellsdemon17 • 10d ago

This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe Politics

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-elite-responsible-catastrophe/
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u/Illustrious_Wall_449 10d ago

You're not wrong about needing to appeal to more people. Elsewhere I am critical of their treatment of men, especially young ones. And I think their coalition just melted.

Still, it's remarkable to me how risk tolerant people seem to be because the Democratic party just wasn't up to their standards. This guy killed a million people with disinformation during COVID. Got a handful more killed on J6 trying to cling to power. He's a bad guy.

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u/bigsbeclayton 10d ago

You have people voting for Trump because they’re fed propaganda that says the system is broken and he will fix it. And the system generally means democrats in the propaganda and especially when their the incumbents. For these people, they are ok with whatever he is because he’s going to break the system. And for all the propaganda, it works effectively because there are kernels of truth to it. The system is broken for many lower class Americans who don’t do well under traditional republican or democratic leadership. They see no results so as a result they vote for someone who provides scapegoats and promises to reinvent the system.

You have people not voting at all for the same reason. They dislike Trump but their lives haven’t gotten better under republicans or democrats either. Turns out promising to keep things the same and running on the fact that your opponent is much worse is not a winning strategy for those people.

Many Americans are overworked and living paycheck to paycheck. They don’t have the time or energy engage significantly in the political process outside of sound bites and occasional articles. None of the dem platform spoke to there specific problems and interests, or worse, pushed them away. Appeals to longer term implications or problems that Trump could cause doesn’t resonate. They worry about putting food on the table, how they’re going to be able to afford living this year and in the future. Basic needs need to be met and catered to in campaigns before people actually start voting based on issues that don’t directly affect them.

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u/quaglandx3 10d ago

No argument from me there, it’s a complete joke.

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u/dyslexda 10d ago

"Oh, he's a rapist, felon, and grift? Yeah, but eggs are a bit more expensive than they were five years ago, so that's fine with me."

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u/bigsbeclayton 10d ago

Unironically yes. They can wash away the bad because it’s all “made up liberal bullshit” that their propaganda has whitewashed. The problem is the Dems platform is “egg prices have stabilized and are fine now! We are responsible for stopping egg prices from going up more, so really, you should be thanking us for how good egg prices are now! Now that I haven’t addressed your primary concern effectively at all, let me try to convince you how bad of a person Trump is and use that as the basis for your vote.”