Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.
Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.
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NYT? is that the same NYT that was telling Democrats for decades that the only reason they aren't winning is because they aren't Republican enough?
OK, gift article, you have my attention...
...nah, it's just more of the same
edit: I was listening to a Cory Doctorow interview yesterday and he had some very interesting things to say and I was reminded of this article again. Talk was long, interesting and meandering, but this was one of the things that reminded me
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The moment I saw it was NYT, my eyebrows were raised.
And yep. It's the same BS.
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Thank you for the TL:DR flavor text.
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🔫 always has been
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- NYT "Eat the Rich Populism": Angrily posting memes at a few select right-wing billionaires and a bunch of foreigners, particularly in China
- Actual "Eat the Rich Populism": Nationalizing critical infrastructure that's being horded by the billionaire class in the aggregate
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Oligarchy destroyed the social contract and forced nihilism amongst the youth. It's why the entire world is tilting authoritarian. Democrats need to pivot hard into proper wealth taxation otherwise things will only devolve further. It's a moral imperative at this point.
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Americans need to learn to differentiate between the vehicle and the driver. The democratic party will not affect change until the vast majority of it's sitting members are primaried.
No need to fix an election when the rich own all the horses in the race.
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Wealth taxation may be an important men's to an end, but in our discourse we need to emphasize more what benefits would be planned for the tax revenue.
Reducing the wealth of greedy assholes is nice, but by itself only gets so far.
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Yea. that's kind of the problem, no one in power has a plan for education, healthcare, housing, wage stagnation, two-tiered job market, or anything really. But one of the benefits would be not running up a deficit. We spend way too much on interest payments, and we really don't see the pay off for the money being borrowed. It's time for a new government the old one broke itself with greed.
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forced nihilism amongst the youth
As they say, idle hands spend time at the genitals!
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Even in Canada they are they trying to enact patriot act style legislation to appease American companies... and there is not now, nor has there ever been, a terrorist justification for it.
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After FDR the establishment has done everything possible to prevent this.
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Democrats are the crisis that they manufactured
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IMO people need to rally behind new progressive candidates and primary more than 50% of the sitting party in 2026. About 75% of the party are incompetent at best and complicit at worst.
People need to look past the individual members of the progressive caucus like AOC and realize the monumental organization it took to get her elected.
Republicans fix elections. Democrats fix primaries.
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Progressives need messaging and a concise platform. 'Fix housing, healthcare, inflation, immigration, monopolies, LGBT rights, income inequality, unemployment, gerrymandering, climate, education....' Everyone who's even capable of listening past 4 objectives knows they're not all going to happen and assumes that means they're all bullshit.
I've really been liking "Tax wealth not work" but I'll take anything stronger than "return to normalcy."
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It's a little beside the point, but:
75% of the party are incompetent at best and complicit at worst.
Compared to Republicans, where the number is practically 100%.
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Man. FUCK the nyt.
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Democrats have been discussing strategy since their loss in November. They’ve come up with use populist rhetoric for elections but stick to neoliberal policy.
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It was the answer ten years ago now we are in an authoritarian technofacist oligarchy that is “disappearing” people…..womp womp. Day late and a private airplane bribe short there NYT
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Oh is it finally time to eat?
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The comments section is closed with a pinned request of the author shocked he got backlash.
I wish I could follow up with this guy.
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Probably call the editor for approving it.
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I'm here for the headline but the content was disappointing. Mamdani got more votes for his mayoral primary win than the Republican who beat Osborn for the Nebraska Senate in the general election (Mamdani 573k in round 2, 499k for Fischer (R), 436k for Osborn (D)).
So who does this guy talk about for most of the article? Osborn, of course.
Look, I get that there will probably be a mix of Osborns and Mamdanis and everything in between and probably even outside of that landscape. There will be people I will have to hold my nose and vote for because they will go after the literally evil billionaires preying on all of us, even if we won't get their support for marginalized groups.
Even Ta Nehisi Coates said that he would have supported FDR in his recent sit down with class traitor Ezra Klein, even though FDR sold black Americans down the river.
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Nyt still doesn't get it.
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NYT Opinion column again
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Weird how the media still won't acknowledge the progressives have control of the DNC & the neo-libs are on the way out.
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Since when? I thought they used procedural bullshit to keep Hogg out
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God damnit, you're right, I missed that in June.
In that case, burn it down.
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The Progressives are the only segment of the left that has any concept of what they are doing or has a plan for the future. The rest are just flailing aimlessly, and reacting incompetently to MAGA treason, abuse, and corruption.
Their primary priority seems to be preventing a Progressive takeover by any means necessary, including helping MAGA to win, rather than allow a progressive administration.
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lol what? Progressives absolutely do not have control over the Democratic Party. They’re the only ones doing anything so they get the media attention, but the neo-libs still hold all of the power in the party.
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Yes, if you bothered to read the entire thread you'd see I just learned Hogg was pushed out in June, thanks.
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you need to stop using phrases like that, it’s going to be turned around on you like defund the police
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Message: Defund the police!
Your response: stop using that phrase. It's not specific enough and too easily weaponized by the right.
Message: reallocate police funding to mental health response teams. Transfer duties from the police to medical professionals.
Your response: the left sucks at messaging. We need powerful slogans that capture the imagination, not wonkish policy positions.
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Nah it’s a pretty clean message, we are going to consume all of their resources, and put up walls so high they can never accumulate that much again. Like God crumbling the tower of Babel.
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I’d probably eat the rich literally if it produced the right reaction: have a Martha Stewart style cooking show all about it: it would get great ratings!
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