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Do not misconstrue this as implying the working class opposes social leftism, because it doesn't. It only seems that way because the only party offering economic hope -- false hope, but hope nevertheless -- is doing it by scapegoating (brown) immigrants.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I really don't get why they went so hard on the everything is fine with the economy story. If you looked even a little deeper than the first number, it was pretty obvious that any wage growth was dominated by gains for high earners and those switching jobs.

[–] teodor_from_achewood 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Bro doesn't know about the expanded child tax credit, the Joy Silk Doctrine, Lina Kahn, speedy union elections, infrastructure week, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

[–] grue 0 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

More like bro does know that none of that stuff meaningfully moved the needle for the working class. If it had, there wouldn't have been a winning margin of voters rejecting Harris for Trump and citing the economy as the reason!

[–] teodor_from_achewood 1 points 9 hours ago

Bro thinks voters would have moved if only liberals had said they were overthrowing capitalism with these policies