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In reply to the discussion: I don't know about you but I am getting sick of the wealthy in this country [View all]Bluetus
(3,054 posts)There may be 20 million that are so stupid or so racist as to be beyond any reach. We don't need them and should not be wasting any time with them.
But there are probably 25 million that are pissed off at Trump and the whole scene right now. They will listen to a populist message. But we need to speak in specifics, as Mamdani has done, as Platner is doing, and to some extent Talarico, although his preacher training makes his still pretty abstract.
We will not win simply by hoping people are so mad at Trump that they will vote for Democrats. And if we do not articulate any tangible plans, and then follow through if we do win the election, we will just be out again in 2028. And our "plans" can't just be about good government (voting rights etc). We must talk about how we will address the things that really animate people. This is health care, economic unfairness, privacy, ICE, the abuses of AI, the abuses of social media, holding billionaires accountable and taxing them heavily, and breaking up the most abusive corporations. And those are just categories. We need specific plans for each of those categories. We need to name names. We need to say what we will do about AI, for example.
Eat the rich.