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"Win back the working class".
The Ds and Rs have been working against the working class for about 70 years.
Yes, I know the Ds provide more lip service... but the numbers don't lie. Pay is down, life expectancy is down, everything is down but corporate profits.
Unions were almost 50% of the workforce back in the 50s, now they are down to less than 10%, and most of that is government employees.
Even Poland now has better worker benefits than the USA, maternity leave, vacation, and other benefits Americans can only dream of. We have been surpassed by Eastern Europe.
It sure would be nice to have a labor party in the USA. You can't win back the working class by actively fucking them over for generations.
I think campaign consultants are the root of this problem, at least in the Democratic party. When you have a campaign run like El Sayed's, where no corporate or PAC money is accepted, then you need to knock on doors, and talk to people. Traditional campaigns pay millions to the consultants who then spend your war chest on legacy media ad buys, which they get a commission on.
This is one major reason why El Sayed, Mamdani, et al, are such a threat to both parties and also why legacy media has targeted Hasan Piker. They are just as effective, if not more effective, without giving special interests(capital) power over them.
We're not in a left/right struggle as much as a top/bottom struggle.
FDR was the compromise not the solution. We got improvements under penalty of revolution and that's only been eroded since.
Sadly most in the usa have been convinced/conditioned to think what was extremely hard won is fair to throw away in return for the possibility of small wealth increases, with the almost everything else getting worse
Yeah i support some dem politicians but i really wish they just took a different party name. At the end of the day schumer and jefferies are just the other side of the coin of trump.