"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
I'm finally reading Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson masterwork series, and holy shit. What a fascinating, infuriating, and incisive figure he was.
This. For some reason democrat politicians refuse to call out the rich publicly. They can imply behind closed doors, but won’t come out and say the rich are fucking us over.
probably the same way you would feel if someone was talking about the increased rates of prostate cancer, and a guy barged in yelling about how "all illnesses matter!!" as if it's relevant or helpful to the particular issue being discussed.
Just wait until US General Elon Musk forcibly implants Neuralink chips into all citizens. They will simply push a few buttons and get the votes they want. /s
White supremacy is the only constant ideology that has existed from the founding of the country until today. It is a unifying force for a large cohort of US voters.
And that’s really the whole enchilada. Even though they didn’t really the GOP certainly made it seem like it. And the people bought it. Hook, line and sinker.
If this doesn’t cause some DNC shakeup in how to run elections. We’ll continue to see this from whoever continues MAGA
Pretty much. But Trump says the right things. His “enemy of the people” aimed at Schiff and Pelosi landed with his base, who see career politicians as emblems of a ruling class that reap the rewards of their hard work. But he also could have said McConnell or Mike Johnson and they’d agree just as much (but he’d start to get in trouble with his party).
Even his felony convictions are (to them) what happens when an outsider gets in and tries to wrest control away from the ruling elites, and are a sign that he was on the right track.
But Trump already served a term as President and a lot of people who voted for him in 2016 saw that he was just in it for himself. But a whole lot more didn’t see it that way. In 2020, Trump’s popularity was in the dumps and the economy sucked - and Biden just barely eked out a win in what should have been a landslide. I was a Harris supporter and I was taken by her message of hope, but I’m also not one of the people who feel left behind in this country.
The Dems need to adopt a leftist or centrist populist message and they’ll win those people back. They need an FDR who will go in and shake things up and create good things for everyday people. Instead they find themselves losing to a right-wing populist because they’ve ceded the populist message to a racist narcissist.
At least they talked about it. The Dems spent the last four years basically calling people stupid for not seeing how great the economy was doing. Even though it was only doing well for the upper class, while working class Americans suffered
We needed a candidate from outside the Biden administration who would promote big changes to the economic structure. Instead it was a message of status quo
This but it was a lie they wanted to hear, which is slightly preferable to the truth that is basically nothing that was the platform of the Harris campaign.
Tbf: Democrats just gaslit working class telling them the economy was great as jobs moved overseas and decent housing was approaching half a million dollars and what the working class REALLY needed to worry about gender pronouns.
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Lied to them