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[–] hector@lemmy.today -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What you need, is an economic populist, a real one not fake populism like on the right that scapegoats for the problems of the rich.

Just take the new party with a flood, and cut throat tactics to get control of the party enforcement mechanisms, fucking Corybyn never took control of it when he let the conservatives purge him and his supporters and the left out of the party often under demonstratably false allegations, as covered in Al Jazeera Investigates, The Labour Files, where someone dropped internal labour party emails. It would make your blood boil knowing how everything has turned out. This is all the conservative establishment inside labour's fault.

Either you purge them all our of the party as they did the left, or take this new party, get rid of the divisive social justice pc warriors in any position of visibility, and make the party populist reform that everyone agrees with. No one wants to get fucked by the super rich without their consent. That is what people care most about too, having enough money to live a dignified life, nothing else matters without that point.

Sideline everyone pushing points for the super rich that are meant to divide, unite around the simple messages of restoring working people to a dignified wage and way of life and forcing the rich to relinquish the license they got from capturing our governments and party half a century back.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

This sounds like you actually want to win an election and not just look good to your ultra progressive peers.

Building a wide coalition and appealing to a lot of voters is the way to win elections.