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Los Angeles County shows why Democrats lost (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by return2ozma to c/politics

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[–] thisorthatorwhatever 1 points 2 hours ago

The oil companies and food conglomerates raise prices knowing that the inflation will hurt Democrats.

As dumb as Trump is, even he looked at interests rates raising and knew it was an idiotic move by the Feds. People remembered him complaining about the interest rate hikes when the election came.

The Democrats can't control corporate interests that will always work to hurt Democrat's agenda. The Democrats don't have the stomach to do things like Trump, who is crazy enough to take on the Fed if he doesn't like what the are doing.

[–] Weirdmusic 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, Drump won because, by and large, eligible voters didn't bother to vote

[–] Fandangalo 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This might be true, but it’s not aligned with the posted article: it highlighted how Latino & Asian voters went to the right because they saw the democrats as ineffectual and as Trump spouting rhetoric instead of legit policy. It also noted how older immigrants saw “new immigrants” as somehow ‘worse mannered’ than them.

The GOP strategy has long been “block Dems” in order to make the federal systems look ineffectual at helping: that’s what happened, at least to these voters in this article.

[–] WoodScientist 4 points 4 hours ago

Democrats are a party divided, Republicans are a party united. That is why they win. The Republican base and Republican donors support big corporations and corporate graft. The Democratic base wants a party that will truly take on corporate power, but the gerontocracy that runs the party is firmly in bed with corporate ghouls through their donations. The Republican base is united with its donors, while the Democratic base is at odds with its donors. The progressive wing of the party, in rejecting corporate influence, offers the party a way forward. But as we've seen in the recent House committee fights, vampires like Pelosi refuse to give up power and will die in office. The leaders of the Democratic party would rather lose to a Republicans than win with an anti-corporate progressive message, as those corporate dollars enrich them personally.

The existing Democratic Party likely needs to be burned down to ashes. It needs to go the way of the Whigs. Only then will room exist for a less corrupt party to form on the left. Democrats are losers, and they are going to continue to lose, as they simply do not want to win. Only win the Democratic party is left in the ash heap of history will progress finally be possible.

These people are beyond redemption.