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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (4 children)

“So what you’re saying is we need to move further to the right.”

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[–] FenrirIII 1 points 6 hours ago

They were literally saying Democrats were too woke. Did you see any woke policies? None! Not even progressive. The media needs to join the rich on the pyre

[–] freshcow 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Exactly the message I expect them to take away from this, if 2016 and 2020 are any indication. Zero introspection.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I would not be surprised if the new iteration of the DNC is the 90s, early 2000s GOP. Look how they are spamming McCain on reddit.

Such a sick cruel joke to make it so the choices in our false election be GOP or Orange Putin.

Remember Tucker Carlson fucking a loaf of bread in a Russian grocery store? Well I hope you all like bread!

The only thing that makes all of this interesting is trumps inevitable death. I know his mental decline is in there too but they'll just weekend at bernies him for the final years.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 9 points 5 days ago

Our constituents' rent went up 15% and their wages stayed the same, so everything is basically ok.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why everyone keeps insisting that courting the right was a stupid move. I personally know a lot of life long Republicans that got real tired of the MAGA stuff. In this matchup specifically, trying to scoop the conservative-but-not-MAGA vote makes sense by the numbers. Obviously it didn't pan out, but at least in theory, there should be a sizeable bloc of voters there.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Less people voted Trump in 2024 than in 2020. It is not that Trump won, it is that Biden/Harris lost hard.

Trump: 74 Mio. in 2020, 73 Mio. in 2024

Biden/Harris: 81 Mio. in 2020, 69 Mio. in 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election

Seems like people on the less right side of politics also got tired after the whole "we need to stop Trump or democracy ends" messaging led to an underwhelming / genocidal and dementia struck president

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's easy to look back. I sincerely think that, based on research and subsequent speculation, appealing to non-MAGA conservatives was a rational play. It explains Liz Cheney and the whole nothing-will-fundamentally-change angle.

Again, didn't pay off, but I'm sure research showed greater expected returns from conservatives than leftists.

[–] Keeponstalin 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Polling research has shown that many progressive policies are popular with not only republican voters but all Americans. Trying to appeal to republican voters by taking on right-wing framing on issues like Immigration, will just reinforce the lies that rhetoric is built on and push those voters further right.

Polls on campaign messaging

How to Win a Swing Voter in Seven Days

“The View” Alternate Universe: Break From Biden in Interviews, Play the Hits in Ads

Polls on policy

How Trump and Harris Voters See America’s Role in the World

Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college

Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones

Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind

Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support

Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies

Tim Walz's Progressive Policies Popular With Republicans in Swing States

People don't want 'nothing will fundamentally change' they want real change to improve their livelyhood

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I think it was obviously insane from the start. It was clear long before 2024, before 2020 even. Offering a racist a ham sandwich isn't going to get him to vote for you when the alternative is offering him the whole pig. Campaigning that way and losing once looks like an accident. Doing it... however the fuck many times we've seen this play out now looks like it's on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not every conservative is a racist and it isn't helpful to frame things that way. It's not unreasonable to prefer a ham sandwich to a diseased pig, and it's not unreasonable to think that's a compelling offer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They're either racists or willing to support and vote for racists. Not sure where you think that line of reasoning is gonna go.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

The gamble was that enough of them wouldn't support racists if given a moderate alternative. Just because it didn't work didn't mean it wasn't a reasonable strategy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But these "lets poll and analyse who to peddle to" strategy has been a failure for two of the past three elections. People are tired of getting managed messages instead of a coherent platform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I'm not saying you're incorrect, I'm just saying that, considering the circumstances, it wasn't an unreasonable gamble. Leftists are notoriously stingy with their vote. As long as progressives are unreliable on election day, appealing to proven voters on well-vocalized issues is a safer strategy. It being an unsuccessful strategy doesn't mean it's not the most successful strategy.