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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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[–] WorkshopBubby@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Joe Biden was extremely left leaning for the average American. He did so many pro union things. He held an EV summit and didn't invite Tesla, because they didn't have a union. First president to cross a picket line. https://uwua.net/2023/10/president-bidens-union-record/ Democrat platforms have always been in the direction of higher taxes on the rich to fund more social safety nets. People just don't like them because they aren't good enough. When the alternative is explicitly anti-worker, anti-union, tax cuts for the rich, destroy social safety nets. This narrative needs to die. It's not a failure of democrat policies or platform it's just a failure of the media environment. It is purely a media problem. Democrats just need to start shitting out more tik toks and get more sycophantic youtubers like trump has, to jerk them off so the vibes shift.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plus by 2024 he had over 90% of Class 1 Freight workers the sick leave their unions had fought for in the strikes earlier in his term.

It's definitely an issue with the spread of information and not with actual policy stances.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I don't know why these articles keep coming up, because the party at large already was. One or two turds in the punchbowl do kind of ruin ones appetite I suppose, but when you're up against a fascist ideology completely based on lies and bullshit social posturing as issues, you can't rely on something like being the "worker party" to combat.

Democrats need to fucking smarter and more nimble at turning the tables on lies and misinformation. That's what we need. They're fucking failing at that right now.

[–] Murvel@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Are you so blind to the fact that a bipartisan system cannot possibly represent the people. The Democrats haven't driven politics for the working man for a long fucking while...

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[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (16 children)

biden was the most pro labor president in my lifetime.

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[–] pogt@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 month ago

That's what I'm talking about

[–] EndofLife@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

We don't have jobs though...

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