To win working-class voters — and possibly today’s election — Democrats need to attack economic elites. But the Kamala Harris campaign hasn’t consistently offered an anti-elite counter to Donald Trump’s right-wing populism.

To win working-class voters — and possibly today’s election — Democrats need to attack economic elites. But the Kamala Harris campaign hasn’t consistently offered an anti-elite counter to Donald Trump’s right-wing populism.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    442·
    4 hours ago

    because the fascists are offering real change even if their electorate doesnt understand completely what it is.

    the democrats and their worldwide equivalents are offering the shitty status quo we already have.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      181·
      4 hours ago

      This is why.

      Hundreds of millions of people working paycheck to paycheck wanted change and she spent two months of her campaign repeating memes.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      93·
      4 hours ago

      How does that make any sense? Conservatives everywhere always just want things to go back to the good old days, eliminates earned freedoms, and kick people out of the country that don’t look like them.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        10·
        4 hours ago

        It doesn’t, but it doesn’t have to. It’s like if you give a sack of rotten fruit to a starving man, he’ll eat it gladly, even if it kills him.

    • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
      25·
      4 hours ago

      It’d only the status quo if the democrats couldn’t wrestle away more control. If you got the house and senate, and presidency, you could see massive improvements in social medicine, bodily autonomy rights for all groups, a much stronger and better economy (as is historical under democratic presidencies), better protections against corporate elite for workers and the environment. The ‘status quo’ is a hamstrung government because of neither party would work together (one party is working for the people while the other is stripping away their power and rights) and no party had full control.

      You’ll see change now, they have the control to enforce Project 2025, now.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        91·
        4 hours ago

        There is that, but there is also the fact that the Democratic party and especially affiliated media has been systematically moving to the right and suppressing the left as much as they can. The Dems being hamstrung is most likely a feature, not a bug.

        And even if it isn’t, does it matter? They courted the Cheney people, and had one of their greatest losses against a guy with the IQ of a toaster. It’s not like they have anything to lose by giving progressives a chance at this point.