• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Democrats would have benefitted greatly from reining in the corporate profiteering that happened from the pandemic onwards.

    They needed to be the anti greed party or the wealth redistribution party or something. Something different, not more of the same.

    It was hard to hear everytime they said “Actually, the economy is doing marvelous.”

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Democrats would have benefited greatly from telling the public that they were going to do anything at all about 30+y of neoliberal policy that benefits Wall St at the expense of the bottom 80%. This election (and every election since Obama left office) was a referendum on business as usual neoliberal policy at the working class’s expense. You could get away with that in the 90s, but when the working class can’t earn enough to rent their own apartment or start a life they’ll vote for literally anything else, including a convicted rapist and con man.