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her plan involved helping people get a home loan with no plans to raise the minimum wage

what did Harris say she was going to bring to table that would attract any voters other than high middle and above class?

Similar thing happened with Hillary and the green energy jobs training.

Did she, though? All I remember is something about a "new small business" subsidy fund, which is... good, I suppose, but didn't address any of the probkems the average American is facing.

Okay, there was also the suggestion of Medicare for all, which would put a dent in things, but I only heard it casually mentioned once and it sounded like something she was "open to discussing," not a core part of her platform.

Aside from that, there was nothing directly addressing the core daily problems the majority of people are experiencing, like overpriced living expenses and underpaid wages.

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."

“We have a ~~concrete~~ asterisk riddled corporation-friendly plan that I’m talking to you about with Liz Cheney right now for helping… that doesn’t involve anything approaching a green new deal, universal healthcare, or clawing back the massive wealth inequality that continues to worsen and has not improved since the 1970s.”

FTFY…

But seriously, what is needed has been painfully clear not just for at least the last 4 presidential elections, but for DECADES. MASSIVE changes that are -of course - completely unfeasible (politically) but nonetheless necessary to scream about from the bully pulpit for the chance to make voters believe and push for such changes.

Trump lies but he PREACHES (granted like it’s some kinda fucked up GOSPEL to his cult of followers)… and this era of “we go high they go low” as if voters care about anything but victories… and “we won’t lie to you with unrealistic promises” as an excuse not to even give aspirational speeches like JFK once used to do with his (at the time) seemingly crazy speeches about having a person walk upon the surface of the moon…

It just is not a recipe for success. The corporate hacks running the DNC need to be FORCED out, as they don’t actually care that we keep losing. They are in revolving doors that are no different from those of Joe Manchin, Kristen Sinema, or ALL the other Rs.

I wouldn’t say Trump stayed on message, but he included it enough in the insane rambling.

The problem is that Harris was from the incumbent party and administration at a time of deep dissatisfaction with the economy. That's an extremely difficult position to be in, and it's made all the worse for her because as VP she gets all the blame by association but can't really do much personally to adjust policy. She's handcuffed to the status quo at a time when the vast majority want change.

Biden and Harris both chose to try to defend the status quo and spin things as more positive. This waa a mistake. I don't know if they would have won by acknowledging the problems and portraying this as them leading through a time of crisis, and how they have plans to get us through, but it probably would have had a much better chance.

It also didn't help that most of the things they did to address the economic woes were either indirect or only narrowly targeted (or canceled out by courts). News that a factory will eventually open and add jobs in one area doesn't alleviate the concerns of the vast majority of voters, nor does processing student loan forgiveness for a few thousand people at a time under very specific programs. These things are good, but they don't make most people feel better the way a more broadly applicable benefit would.

She literally said, "I will go after price gouging," which is 100% the reason prices are so high, but instead, the media focused you on starting a business. The whole price gouging thing was absent from every news article. The only time you heard it was when she spoke live. Absolutely wild.

This interview with Sarah Smarsh is good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC-VkbEpac4

She says that the Republicans were the party that validated working class voters' pain, even if the rest of what they said was a pack of lies and they plan to help the rich and harm the poor. The Democrats didn't even get this far: they repeatedly ignored working class suffering while insisting the economy was good and making promises to help the "middle class" (whoever that is these days). Given the choice between one party that says "we hear your pain" and another that says "you're too ignorant to realize things are actually going well" it's not surprising which party got the working class votes. It's just a shame the Republicans don't actually plan to help these people.

He closed that strike down in like December of 2022, the East Palestine train derailment happened on February 2023, exactly what the rail workers were warning about.

East Palestine was arguably in Biden's hands. Maybe the regular people forgot, but a lot of union workers didn't.

I think the difference is we already had Trump as President. Thinking he might be good now is admitting you have no idea how he was the first time.