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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
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one of the biggest issues, in my humble and also arrogant opinion, is that no political party in any English-speaking country, represents any interests of anyone earning under 7 figures. Maybe even 8 figures, and they have 0 interest or motivation in changing that — despite the lip-service both main parties make for it.
Correct, but no one on the right is advocating for the working class while a decent amount of the left are pro union and pro worker.
Just because both candidates are bad choices does not mean they are equally as bad. The DNC & RNC decide who is the candidate, let's be real. Primaries are rigged, so we get "a shit sandwich vs a giant douche" as South Park put it so eloquently.
not to be too sophist about it - but while I agree party members care — the salient word in my above post is represent.
it doesn't matter if the captain doesn't want you to get shot if the general is telling the private to shoot you.
That tracks, with I think a couple exceptions on the left. As a whole, yes absolutely.
I might have misread what I perceived to be a false equivalency about both sides being equally bad though.
Like saying Louie CK and Cosby are the same thing because they both did sexual crimes
Same same, but different
It feels like a significant amount of the democratic party really do. There are a few that ruin it but most are behind minimum wage increases, green energy, taxing the rich, better education and health care. They need a majority not a tie
The few that ruin it dictate everything.
Threat of violence is the only way to get change