• melitele@feddit.it
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    2 years ago

    It’s not soorts teams. Going further left means reaching rural people and poor people. A lot of the working class just isn’t aware of what left and right mean. If the left let’s republican dictate who is taking those ppl’s side this is how it’s auways gonna end. Posh elitism has failed yet again

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        2 years ago

        The career politician ran a better campaign and lied more believably.

        Also not all union leaders are left wing, paradoxically. There are legitimate reasons that Americans distrust unions.

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        2 years ago

        One example does not a rule make, and in the US electoral system money (and the party affiliations that bring it) speaks loudest of all. Maybe going further left wouldn’t work, but going further right certainly hasn’t. When Harris first emerged as the candidate she had such a swell of support, as she moved further right she lost it.

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            2 years ago

            Sure, but if she had spent her few months promising to tax the shit out of Elon Musk and other billionaires I bet people would have been more excited and actually showed up to vote than when she promised to keep the course and also appoint a Republican

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              2 years ago

              Harris literally campaigned with a promise to tax the billionaires more.

              Billionaires countered her campaign by doing things like literally buying votes.

              Now people on lemmy are pretending she never promised to tax billionaires more.

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                2 years ago

                Sorry, I meant she should have been Bernie-style grandstanding about it and hammering it home and making it a core part of her campaign more than it not being in her plans at all. I feel like she started with that kind of message and was doing well and ended with the Cheneys like me and ill put a Republican in my cabinet and lost

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                  2 years ago

                  The polls show most voters were motivated by inflation and thought democrats were to blame. Republicans and the billionaire class convinced enough voters that increasing taxes on billionaires would make it worse.