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There is more to life you know? When will liberals learn.
Edit: I changed the title so that people will understand what I am getting at. It is important to realise that economic anxiety trumps other concerns, especially in the growing wealth inequality and the overt shows of oligarchic rule. As Franklin Roosevelt said: People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Not advocating for killing trans people is apparently "identity politics"
But they weren't even really defending trans people in the last campaign. I don't know what OP is talking about.
why do you think they nominated Harris? because of her experience? because of her broad support? her charisma?
why all the “i’m with her” stuff?
They nominated her because of her experience and name recognition as vice president.
she has no experience
Attorney general of CA, senator of CA, vice president of the US. Certainly no experience at all.
one term as senator is not experience, being the attorney general is negative experience.
being VP is not experience.
Who would you have preferred on experience alone?
Bernie Sanders
Look, I love Bernie, but he wouldn't have done much to counter the "too old" argument.
vs Trump? I don’t think that would be the issue.
I don't think he even considers it anymore, at least that's the vibe I have been noticing and this interview sealed it, he'd probably rather support another progressive with similar views to step in to run for President and support them, he's not worried to have more power like most politicians, he seems a lot more down to earth and focused on the issues at hand, last chance was probably 2015
The question is which of the few progressive politicians will step in, I'd like it to be AOC but I doubt it will happen
at this point, no he’s probably not… but the DNC fucked him out of the presidential nomination twice… first time, we got trump vs hillary clinton, second time we got Biden.
A lot of Trump supporters would’ve preferred Sanders…
the last election the DNC just skipped the nomination process and gave it to Harris… Sanders would’ve won. Harris won the last election but it was hacked.
AOC / Buttigieg might win the next election, but we won’t be having elections anymore.
Probably not with this Supreme Court giving Trump a pass to do many things he shouldn't have power to, even if there was really an election held this time around if Trump rejected the results would the Supreme Court side with him? The point it's not granted to be a no answer says a lot
A considerable number of lgbt, Latinos and African-Americans voted for Trump than before. Gen Z also voted for Trump.
Putting someone in an insecure state makes them vulnerable to emotional manipulation. And that insecure state is economic insecurity, as alluded in my title post. 60% of Americans are living pay check to pay check. Several Latino families are living in under one household. Young people feel they are locked out of jobs and from owning their own homes. If liberals in their high horse don't get this, well, it is not like they have not been warned before.
No the fuck we did not.
Do not put that evil on us.
I mean, 12% is significant, because they're absolute fucking morons. But it's also one of the lowest groups.
That 12% also likely mostly cis white gay men.
Totally right that those are all problems and that the Democrats should do more when in power. And while more Black and Latino people voted for trump than ever before, they still by a majority voted for Harris. And women voters of both demographics voted even more for her than men Also only 18% of those who were LGBT and voted went for Trump, a drop from 27% in 2020.
You also didn't address the commenters point, what is Identity Politics in your meme? Just saying some minorities voted for Trump doesn't provide rationale for your comment. What is identity politics for you?
As I mentioned to other commenter, running on socially progressive platform of being inclusive to women, lgbt and ethnic minorities alone is not enough to win elections, the Democratic Party also has to run on economic progressivism. As an outsider looking on previous US presidential elections, the Democratic party hasn't really offered anything of good substance on economic issue. The $25,000 cash assistance to buy a house is a joke if people say stating to someone that making six figures is not enough to impress anyone anymore. I heard Democrats go on more on "Can you believe Trump said this!", or "Kamala will be the first female black Indian president!" Any average voters would say "okay, we expect Trump would say and that you are black Indian female, but what are you gonna do for us with the rising cost of living?"
She did talk about what she would do though. She ran on increasing the minimum wage to atleast 15. The cash assistance is actually incredibly helpful but you're right it's not enough but also, I don't know who is around you but everyone I know, old and young, find making over 100k to be impressive. She also talked about plenty of other progressive policies.
Also her and all Democrats mainly ran on the problems she could fix and also on the Trump is a fascist shit that was 100% accurate. I only heard the idea of her being the first black Indian woman president be a side thing. There weren't literal slogans about it like with Clinton in 2016.
Again, you're not saying what is identity politics. Is it just that socially progressive policies is identity politics?
Edit: I also think it's important to say that "identity politics" is a right wing term used to describe accepting minorities and giving them equal rights. If you say you're fine with Social progressivism and just want economic progressivism too, that's fine. But then why use their right wing term for it? Why not do "Democrats: Best I can do is socially progressive and economically conservative policies"?
The point being made isn't that the dem's are doing enough to talk about the economic mess we are all serving. We all know, they aren't, they are avoiding the main topics.
The point is the accusation that they are talking too much on say trans issues... which I find bullshit as well. IE the whole concept of harris's campaign being woke I find ridiculous.... I watched her ads, I watched her debate, I don't recall her bringing up LGBT or Minority topics unless the interviewer/moderator specifically asked.
Yep even MLK Jr. started talking more about wealth inequality and connecting it to discrimination and bigotry before he was assassinated.