I wouldn’t generalize it to Democrats, thought, because the association in this board between trans issues and you as a poster, specifically, poisons the well if you try to use it to make a point.
Maybe so. I picked that and immigration because they came up in the election, and because I know both are issues many posters would refuse to compromise on.
The so-called “immigration issue” is just race war. What matters is skin color, not immigration. Neither being a legal immigrant nor a citizen will protect you if you have the wrong skin color.
Yes, at which point they pushed through a major bread and butter left wing-ish program in the ACA. Then immediately following their successful passing of a health care program, attacking a major issue for regular Americans, the people of America gave the Dems a giant fuck you for having done it. They lost 60 seats in the House and 7 in the Senate.
But, yeah, they should lean further left.
I’m guessing also that moral outrage may be a deciding factor. If Trump/Vance/GOP says or does something horrifically bigoted about gays, blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., that triggers a sense of moral outrage in many Democrats and gets them marching in the streets.
But when it comes to things like “Millennials working three jobs to make ends meet,” “grocery prices jump 63% in six years,” “salaries stagnant for a decade,” it doesn’t incur the same moral outrage - and hence, not the same energy to be marching in the streets - because it’s seen as a neutral harm, kind of like being hit by a hurricane - not an intentional moral harm.
In the former example there is an identifiable target to protest, who do we protest in your later examples?
Because they wanted to hear about better taxes/spending ratio and lower interest rates. You know, things the President doesn’t control.
No she didn’t according to the MAGAs I know that only watch Fox
We have shown this is not true- all those issues have had lots of Democratic support.
Good points.
Again- this is not true, the Dems passed a increase in the Minimum wage last time they were in control. And Dem presidents have used EO to increase Federal Minimum wage.
It was voted on a couple times, but died in committee.
Yep, the facts show the OP is wrong in almost all the points.
Yeah, really. Not exactly positive reinforcement.
Here’s my advice to the Democratic Party. Champion the economic issues that people would support and the Republican (read current MAGA) party cannot counter on ideology.
Tipped employees get the same minimum wage as everyone else.
Insurance reform. Not “require everyone to have insurance” but premiums that make sense.
Along those lines, reform health insurance. Why do we pay premiums, copays, deductables and then %age above that?
Health care cost reform. Charges should be a reasonable percentage of actual cost. Example, a machine that goes ping costs $1M to buy and $5 to operate per patient. It is expected to do 100,000 scans before needing replaced. The scan should cost $16.50 (10% profit) + labor.
Insurance reform is probably the best thing this country could possible do to better the lives of the people, and yet, the insurance lobbies will never let that happen. Why charge reasonable prices (like the math you did there) when they can just as easily get away with charging thousands for simple procedures? Point is, there is too much money to get anything done quickly on either side of the aisle.
California has Insurance reform and a Commissioner, etc. Significant across the board increases have to be approved. So, those lobbies are not all powerful.
If they cannot counter on ideology, they’ll make shit up. You already admitted they only watch Fox just above. Fox won’t show the truth.
A problem with that comparison, though, is that there isn’t good reason to suspect that people arguing for a lower minimum wage are doing so as the first step toward achieving their real goal of re-establishing slavery. Most of the people bringing this issue up are hardcore transphobes who are using this issue, on which their position is widely popular, to advance their hateful Christian Nationalist agenda, which isn’t.
No, but it does prove the point that your pony needs to learn a new trick.
Nevermind
Funny thing is now that the ACA is popular and the GOP has failed to repeal and replace it or really even argue a coherent plan of their own, it’s become a non-issue in federal elections. The culture war gets more media attention in part because there are two side fighting it, whereas with largely only dems talking about healthcare, the media’s “cover the controversy” model ignores it. It’s still a massive failure from the dems from a messaging perspective to not have an effective media strategy to force the GOP to defend this ground where they have essentially nothing, but it really isn’t an issue of the dems not valuing it.
100% Dems need to blare this shit that is the truth like Trump blares BS of people eating dogs and cats. But, how do they do that? They don’t have an information arm on their side that reaches the right like the right has the disinformation arm of Fox.
Well the GOP strategy is when you end up on the crossfire style TV segments is essentially to force the other side to talk about what you want to talk about regardless of whether it has anything to do with the topic.
I also think on economic issues in general, the democrats are still afraid to do things that they consider uncouth - everyone knows Trump gave them a stimulus check because Trump’s name was on the check. When Biden was president and they sent out the second round of checks it was political malpractice not to do the same. Yes it’s not entirely accurate and yes it has a slimy/gangsterish kind of feeling, but the American electorate clearly rewards that.
Part of the issue is that the democrats are becoming the party of well educated people, who generally are more financially stable.
Also democratic politicians are trying to walk a tightrope of pretending they want to fight the oligarchy, without actually doing anything of substance to fight the oligarchy because this will cause endless amounts of money to be spent to defeat them in elections. Because of that democratic voters tune out democratic politicians and their empty promises about fighting income inequality in a meaningful way.
A lot of us learned our lesson from Obama’s empty rhetoric about hope and change, and the democrats refusal to do much when they had supermajorities in 2009 and 2010.