• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    thats their sell, basically obama “hope-ishness”

    That works when you’ve had 8 years of Bush and are campaigning on free healthcare, ending the wars, federal legalization of cannabis. It works when you’ve had 4 years of Trump and everyone thinks the democrats will defund the police, provide free healthcare and college, abolish ICE, codify roe, pack the court, etc. Then when you fail to do any of that, you get the shit kicked out of you 2 years later.

    The dems cannot campaign on hope when they’ve demonstrated that they will not give the people what they want.

    This isn’t a messaging problem, it’s a “triangulating yourself to be 2 inches left of republicans and then acting surprised when your base doesn’t show up” for 30+ years problem.

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      5 months ago

      many of biden’s appointees such as his NLRB pick are better than the last 3 democrats.

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      5 months ago

      agreed. the Democrats have been abusive. cant really do anything about that until we have a better nomination, funding and voting system.

      trump is a time dilation machine. the closer we get to him the shorter my horizon gets. keeping him away from the near dictatorial powers the supreme court just sanctioned is my primary objective.

      I (and perhaps you) and many others should remember that the age we grew in defined us. the younger see things a little differently

      I am just tryng to make enough space between the ancient vampires and our kids to allow them to have a say in their future.

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      5 months ago

      How much of that was blocked in some way by the reps? Every time the peanut gallery chimes in with “what did Dems ever get accomplished?” they never provide the required addendum that reps are obstructionists.