Daniel Marans
@dmarans
I am often critical of leftists, but I do think they are correct that a class/economics-focused message is a better response to Trump than the hawkish Cold War bromides Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin delivered in response to his speech on Tuesday. At the same time, Bernie is ultimately not the ideal messenger for the national party. The public's appetite for a fairer economy where they're not at the mercy of unscrupulous corporate actors does not necessarily mean they have an appetite for Bernie's more sweeping vision for reform. https://x.com/jacobin/status/1897367238518485276
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@4484
u cant deliver ANY message with no charisma. dems just lack charisma. only noteable outlier is newsome, but his public record is so bad already.
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Alex
@asenderling.eth
I don't think attacking billionaires resonates with the majority of the electorate. I think targeting specific billionaires like Musk/Bezos could be effective but alienating people like Cuban only hurts the party imo. What they really need is a unified front, everyone to fall in line like the Rs did with Trump.
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McBain
@mcbain
There is a fundamental disconnect for leftists Their message is that your opportunities are the result of forces outside you control (billionaires, oligarchy). But if you want people to get animated and support you, they need to feel they have agency and their actions matter
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Purp🇵🇸
@purp
I think being shown what both the otherside( both maga populist and the liberal dems response) actually think of the working class is going to improve that appetite much more esspically if the labor unions get more involved . I'm a Marxist in rural deep south, and class consciousness is definitely rapidly multiplying in ways I've never seen down here
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Stuart
@olystuart
On the contrary I think Bernie's messaging is more liberal and doesn't resonate the same way anymore because the left is looking for a political revolution not a liberal reformist. The most important part of Bernie's message was always getting the corruption out of US politics, but the Dems can never do that or the GOP, only when there's an insurgent third party of the working class that doesn't participate in the legal bribery system with the plutocrats will we get a popular leftist leader.
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