• MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    He’s absolutely right. To people paying attention the Democracy message probably resonates. Most people aren’t paying that close of attention. They’ve been failed by the system we have set up. You just aren’t going to get the results you want if your message to people who have been failed by the system is “save the system!”

    • CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Yep. The winning strategy has been shown by democratic wins in purple states last November. Virginia was a very even race and the Dems took back the legislature without even mentioning threat to Democracy. The issues matter and the GOP has provided more than enough ammunition to point out why they’re the wrong choice for those issues.

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    Yeah I agree with that to a certain extent, however it’s not like the two were unlinked. I mean one of Trump’s plans is to destroy Medicare. Also to destroy the regular framework of our nation. How are things like cost of living, housing, and Healthcare not part of the whole threat to democracy thing? It’s all the same fight.

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      Yes, and if we give up our democracy, we lose any power we have to address the other issues.

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        This argument would carry more weight if people thought those we elect were interested in actually addressing those issues.

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          Medicare for all and legal weed has been polling at above or around 70% for a few years now. What we want doesn’t translate into laws even with overwhelming support unless it also makes rich people richer. It’s no secret why people don’t trust their representative to represent them, because they don’t.

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    The message should be that those cost-of-living, housing and healthcare issues arise from the subversion of the democratic institutions responsible for addressing them—and that one of the motivations of those who threaten democracy is to produce that outcome.

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        It also doesn’t help that rebuilding democratic institutions takes a long time, and people have rent due every month.

        It’s like telling someone their house is burning down that we’re going to fix climate change so that won’t happen anymore.

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          Not destroying them any further would be a good start, though. And I get it that people have a lot of legitimate grievances with the current political system. But anybody who thinks that voting for Trump is in any way shape or form a solution for those is just deplorably stupid.

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    I remain skeptical about how much of this is lipservice but… yea, 100% right on that point.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland and campaign surrogate for Joe Biden, has warned of the limitations of an election message centred on the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump.

    In January the US president gave a rousing speech about the need to protect democratic institutions from Trump, now his rival in the 2024 election, and the Biden campaign has promised to put the issue front and centre.

    Biden can point to an increase in housing inventory and measures that make it easier to build affordable housing, Moore argues, as well as a cap on insulin prices and steps to reinforce and expand the Affordable Care Act, which Trump has threatened to undermine.

    Moore, 45, a Rhodes scholar and former paratrooper who saw combat in Afghanistan, is widely tipped as a potential future presidential candidate.

    He insists that he is not thinking about such speculation but does intend to be a highly active surrogate for the Biden-Harris re-election campaign in the coming months.

    The governor urged the grassroots “uncommitted” movement, which racked up tens of thousands of Democratic primary votes in Michigan and Minnesota in protest at Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza, to consider the potential perils of withholding their support in November.


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  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    I agree. And Americans don’t seem to understand inflation has been global and blame Biden.

    (If any person has control over it, it’s Putin with his invasion of Ukraine preventing crops being planted.)