Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again
Democrats Must Become the Workers’ Party Again
Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26289830
Summary
Democrats must reclaim their identity as the party of the working class to regain electoral strength.
Despite pro-labor policies under Biden, working-class voters feel disconnected, seeing Democrats as defenders of a failing system.
The party’s decline traces back to NAFTA and neoliberal economic policies that favored corporations over workers.
A generational effort to prioritize labor rights, fair wages, and economic security while addressing working-class frustrations are needed.
Without serious reform, Democrats will continue losing ground to populist alternatives.
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They were told that during the last election and did not listen, correction, they ignored us.
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Last elections.
Since, like, 2012 at least.
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Carter's reelection. When they abandoned New Deal politics.
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True, true. I just say 2012 because it's contemporary enough to still be relevant to modern politics and obviously followed Obama's disappointing 1st term, which had a huge grassroots, "we're gonna make some real changes" feel to it. But you're right that's it's been a while since we had a president/candidate even close to left of center
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Nader was also a populist
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