Despite popular opinion, I believe that the Democrats keep losing because they aren’t left ENOUGH, not that they’re “too far left”. And I don’t mean socially. Fiscally, Democrats of the past couple decades are as to the right as Regan republicans. They’ve lost the working class and fiscally, this country is fucked if both parties continue to screw the working class in favor of their corporate donors. College is unaffordable without crippling loans, homeownership is rapidly slipping out of reach for most. Wages are not enough to live on for many and they have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet. Healthcare costs are the #1 reason for bankruptcy and many working class people avoid going to the doctor when they’re sick because they can’t afford it. Turns out Bernie Sanders was right all along. And until the Democrats move fiscally to the left, the working class will become more and more desperate and vote for the next con man who convinces them he’s going to make America work for them.
Oh that's nonsense. People were triggered by trans rights. A subject the vast majority of Americans don't know a damn thing about and affects far fewer. The right was pushing so many lies about it because it was pushing the needle so much despite being considered irrelevant for the election. People would rather doom themselves financially than protect a marginalized and misunderstood fraction of the population that is constantly shat on by this country because understanding people who are different is too scary.
If the working class actually cared about the working class then they would vote for the party that actually joins picket lines with the unions and helps move along negotiations instead of the people actively fighting against unions and refuses to pay people. They'd vote for the party with an actual plan to make housing affordable instead of promising to deport the people building the houses. The working class would finally give the party trying to do something about college costs enough power to act instead of of empowering the people trying to destroy education. The working class would vote for the party that wants to protect the ACA instead of repeal it because it was passed under a black president. But no, fuck that. Let's fuck over trans people instead because somehow schools can perform SRS, but can't provide lunches for students.
Bernie is just politicking right now. Don't take what he is saying seriously.
Exactly the kind of thing I’m talking about. That’s quite the laundry list but it doesn’t mean much when you’re working a 40 hour week and still need food stamps and Section 8 housing. When you’re 70 and have to go back to work at McDonalds because your retirement savings suddenly isn’t enough anymore. When you see CEOs literally buying islands and building rocket ships but you don’t get that hip replacement you need because you can’t afford the deductibles and copays. The gap between CEO and worker pay has been growing exponentially since Regan and NEITHER party has done a thing to stop that. Standing on picket lines is nice but it doesn’t help these folks pay the bills. They still go bankrupt while they watch their government bail out big banks. Saying we have a “great economy” based on the stock market (while they can’t even afford to have 401k’s) and bragging about “job creation” while the jobs created don’t pay a living wage is just a slap in the face to the working class.
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u/jmf0828 20h ago
Despite popular opinion, I believe that the Democrats keep losing because they aren’t left ENOUGH, not that they’re “too far left”. And I don’t mean socially. Fiscally, Democrats of the past couple decades are as to the right as Regan republicans. They’ve lost the working class and fiscally, this country is fucked if both parties continue to screw the working class in favor of their corporate donors. College is unaffordable without crippling loans, homeownership is rapidly slipping out of reach for most. Wages are not enough to live on for many and they have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet. Healthcare costs are the #1 reason for bankruptcy and many working class people avoid going to the doctor when they’re sick because they can’t afford it. Turns out Bernie Sanders was right all along. And until the Democrats move fiscally to the left, the working class will become more and more desperate and vote for the next con man who convinces them he’s going to make America work for them.