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Harris campaign failed to connect with working class, US union federation says
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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That's not the message working people heard. They heard, "we are the establishment whose theories have been fucking you over for fifty years, but in our infinite wisdom and benevolence we have decided to make some changes that WE have determined will make your lives better, and so you must vote for us. After all, we are your intellectual superiors."
Yes. Incredibly theoretical, difficult to understand, highly abstract plans like "raising the national minimum wage".
Wrong plans, they're referring to the joke '50k small business loan with a bajillion strings attached', 'a maybe tax hike for the wealthy, but no transfer to middle/lower income', 'here are two tax credits half of which only impact parents and together dont break even on inflation', 'absolute refusal to commit to keeping khan', in short dems to working Americans: fuck you, and here's some genocide on top. Vote for us because we think we're the only option.
Gee. Can't imagine why they didn't have any fucking credibility on that one.
Thumbs down, curtsy
The theories I'm talking about are neoliberal theories, they are the theories that essentially all economic policies have been based on for the majority of time most of us have been alive. Even if the establishment has recently decided to embrace some changes, you can't expect people to just forget the last fifty years or so.
Because they heard that from Republicans who lied to them
They need to find a way to silence the Republicans, then. They need to ensure that people are only getting the right message.
This is why Republicans are attacking education, pressuring news companies into only presenting them positively and attacking their opposition ("here's why Biden's successes are bad for Biden"), attacking tech companies to pressure them into allowing their disinformation to spread, etc. They're "playing the refs".