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Or maybe, just maybe, the Democrats (and other similar parties elsewhere) went too crazy and left and did not focus on real issues ordinary people face?
by ssijak 2y ago
Or maybe, just maybe, the Democrats (and other similar parties elsewhere) went too crazy and left and did not focus on real issues ordinary people face?
- galactus 2y agoWhat, in practice, was too crazy and left in the Biden administration? (Honestly asking)
- bagels 2y agoDefending trans people apparently was a bridge too far for many, for one.
- nobody9999 2y ago>Defending trans people apparently was a bridge too far for many, for one. Which is ridiculous. Trans folks are less than one percent of the population. Why shouldn't they be allowed to be who they are? Given the tiny number of these folks, it really shouldn't make any difference to anyone who's not trans anyway. But, apparently, some folks, who appear to believe that their trained-in prejudices are the laws of nature, feel the need to tell other people how they should live and, even more egregiously, try to force them to do so. That's not liberty. That's not individual rights. That's not religious freedom. Rather, it's busybodies trying to tell other people what to do.
- jimininy 2y agoThe problem isn't the people, it's the policy. e.g. https://4w.pub/male-inmate-charged-with-raping-woman-inside-california-womens-prison-cdcr-confirms-pregnancy https://4w.pub/male-inmate-charged-with-raping-woman-inside-... The only reason this could happen is because of policy that prioritizes self-declared "gender identity" over sex, and over women's dignity and safety. That's the actual problem, not people just quietly living their lives.
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- lancesells 2y agoThere's 2x the amount of border apprehensions under Biden than Trump. I'm sure more people are trying to get into the country under Biden than trump so let's say the control is pretty even but not uncontrolled. https://usafacts.org/topics/immigration-border-security/ https://usafacts.org/topics/immigration-border-security/
- ImJamal 2y agoThe number of border apprehensions is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the number of illegals who enter the country. If 0 illegal immigrants enter the country that would mean there are 0 border apprehensions. Would that mean the border was less secured? Everything indicates there were less illegal border crossings under Trump than Biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/02/11/trump-biden-immigration-border-compared/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/02/11/trump-...
- lancesells 2y agoThe parent comment said "uncontrolled". It also boggles the mind that immigrants are the issue while the 1% own as much as the entire middle class, while the bottom class owns nothing at all. When you pay more for groceries, or rent, or gas do you think it's the immigrants making it expensive?
- arandomusername 2y agoWhat do you think illegal border crossings are if not uncontrolled immigration? Cost of groceries/gas are a separate issue. Does not mean immigration isn't. And do you think immigrants do not make rent more expensive? If you increase the demand, without increasing the supply, what do you think happens?
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- meiraleal 2y agoLiberal isn't left. Maybe their problem is that they actually didn't go left (workers).
- astrange 2y agoWe just had by far the most pro-union administration in decades, eg they saved the Teamsters' pensions, and in return the Teamsters didn't endorse them. Americans don't care if you respect the working class or not, they're postmaterialist voters. But they're also "education polarized", so they definitely care if you respect people who didn't go to college. But "respect" doesn't mean you're nice to them or even that you do things for them as a group. It could just mean you don't come off like you went to grad school.
- thpeterson 2y agoGrocery union workers were hassling people to see their prescriptions where I live recently, before they’d let them in the store as pharmacy workers had a different contract More local tribal groups who can ask for your papers “please” is not the way either. Unions have aligned with mafioso and pols to propagate violence. Not sure why everyone thinks the past is a good solution. Clearly the average American is a moron; who rewards them with more authority? Dem pols are 100% useless as any real change screws them too as people. It’s pageantry on both sides. Ones just openly violent and that one won. Great.
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- messe 2y agoThe Overton window has shifted insanely right in the US. The democrats would be considered centrist or even centre right in much of the EU.
- jvmboi81 2y ago[flagged]
- amarcheschi 2y agoConsidering that our far right government in italy hiked taxes and approved the biggest number of visa for slave workers, yeah they do except for women's rights
- smolder 2y agoNobody wants abortion at 9 months.
- reverius42 2y agoWomen who are otherwise going to die because of a medical condition might want to have an abortion at 9 months (for example). The idea of being "for abortion at 9 months" just means allowing those women to live (instead of having to have their babies whether or not it kills them).
- bigfudge 2y agoMost dems, and certainly Harris, want nothing to do with abortion at 9 months. This is adding nothing to this discussion.
- jvmboi81 2y agoIf Dems don't want it why have they passed a bill that allows exactly that? My post is already censored btw.
- antifa 2y agoI think they do want those strange made-up strawman policies.
- t-3 2y agoIt's more that their marketing targeted people who are already Democrats and moderate Republicans. The first group didn't need convincing, and the second group is small. The independents and swing voters they should have courted were left in the cold and either didn't vote or went for Trump. They kept preaching to choir, and the choir kept shouting "Hallelujah!", so they thought they had it in the bag.
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