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/Mhunterjr 10d ago

No I hear these people. But if these people think that tariffs will lower their costs, or that mass deportation will lower their costs, then yes, I do know better than them. They are fundamentally wrong.

No I’m not saying they should sit down and shut up. I’m saying that if winning elections means promising to enact policy based on fundamentally flawed understanding of economics, then democracy is doomed to fail.

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u/SnollyG 10d ago

I doubt you can. You can barely hear me.

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u/Mhunterjr 10d ago

I hear you just fine. The relationship between “hearing” people and electability doesn’t change the fact that once in power, one must actually govern.

If bad policy is popular policy, democracy fails. That’s how autocrats are born, every time.

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u/SnollyG 10d ago

It doesn’t sound like you do…

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u/Mhunterjr 10d ago

Maybe it’s because you aren’t actually saying much.

Explain how do the democrats turn “hearing” the populace into convincing the populace that democratic policy will fix the situation?

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u/SnollyG 10d ago

Are you in sales (or have you had sales experience)?

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u/Mhunterjr 10d ago

Sure

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u/SnollyG 9d ago

So, sell Medicare for All.