• Diplomjodler
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    144 hours ago

    But the DNC would rather hand their country to the fascists than allow progressive ideas to gain traction.

    • Jesus
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      74 hours ago

      If you read that article, all of those policies are economic policies that Harris was pushing. Punishing price gouging, lowering rent and mortgages costs by incentivizing building and banning price fixing algorithms, etc.

      Those races either had more effective communicators, or shittier opponents. They were democratic candidates that ran on the Democratic Party’s policies.

      • @brlemworld
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        61 hour ago

        How on earth do you have a shittier opponent than Donald Trump?!?

  • @Ensign_Crab
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    126 hours ago

    Or course, being moderates, they didn’t mean a word of it.

    But it does show that even feigned progressive populism brings out the voters that running to the right alienates.

    • Jesus
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      43 hours ago

      Yeah, but read the article, look at the policies those people campaigned on, and google whether or not Harris also backed those economic policies. She did. She supported and ran on most of those policies.

      IMHO, this was probably more of an issue around how effective the candidates, and their opponents, were at getting the policies or “vibes” in voter’s minds.

      • @Keeponstalin
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        63 hours ago

        It’s both a policy and messaging issue. On both fronts the campaign did not take either seriously enough

        • Jesus
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          03 hours ago

          Yeah, just saying that the policies mentioned in the article were not what made those people win or made Harris lose. They basically had the same policies.

          • @Keeponstalin
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            52 hours ago

            I disagree, from the article those candidates had more anti-corporate policies that addressed the issue of cost of living. The closest thing Harris ran on was to crack down on Price gouging, which was/is one of her most popular positions, yet she also did not campaign enough on that front and contrasted it with housing deregulation