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Could you share how the left wing politicians fighting for a higher minimum wage, medicare for all, CHIP / WIC, capping prices on insulin, and executing actual

Could you share how the left wing politicians fighting for a higher minimum wage, medicare for all, CHIP / WIC, capping prices on insulin, and executing actual programs that create local jobs vis-a-vis the Infrastructure Investment Act is indicative of "not caring about people and telling them they should just learn to code"?

fullshark 1y ago
Seems like a loaded question. I think they'll figure it out, messaging is part of the problem, especially cause a lot of culture war stuff and secular/urban elitism that drives messaging is truly detested by the working class, but not the entire problem. "We have hand outs for them, why don't they love us?" maybe is the place to start but maybe people want more than that from the people driving policy? They want a seat the table in building the country and not just a life free from unbearable poverty? Just some ideas, it's not my problem. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/the-democratic-party-favorability https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/the-democr...
- magicalist 1y ago
  It sounds a lot like you're suggesting politicians should engage in more populist messaging to make people feel heard...like railing against NAFTA even when they just have a few quibbles with its specifics?
palmotea 1y ago
> Could you share how the left wing politicians fighting for a higher minimum wage, medicare for all, CHIP / WIC, capping prices on insulin, and executing actual programs that create local jobs vis-a-vis the Infrastructure Investment Act is indicative of "not caring about people and telling them they should just learn to code"? It's pretty simple: collectively, they didn't care enough. Not enough to counter 30 years of neoliberalism, and stuff like "just learn to code" are convenient fantasies to avoid dealing with the problems they were too timid to address. IMHO, we have Trump because the Democrats are terrible. They had eight f*cking years to change to actually defeat him, once the problem became evident, but they decided to sit on their hands except to fearmonger.

fullshark 1y ago

Seems like a loaded question. I think they'll figure it out, messaging is part of the problem, especially cause a lot of culture war stuff and secular/urban elitism that drives messaging is truly detested by the working class, but not the entire problem. "We have hand outs for them, why don't they love us?" maybe is the place to start but maybe people want more than that from the people driving policy? They want a seat the table in building the country and not just a life free from unbearable poverty? Just some ideas, it's not my problem. https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/the-democratic-party-favorability https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/the-democr...

magicalist 1y ago
It sounds a lot like you're suggesting politicians should engage in more populist messaging to make people feel heard...like railing against NAFTA even when they just have a few quibbles with its specifics?

palmotea 1y ago

> Could you share how the left wing politicians fighting for a higher minimum wage, medicare for all, CHIP / WIC, capping prices on insulin, and executing actual programs that create local jobs vis-a-vis the Infrastructure Investment Act is indicative of "not caring about people and telling them they should just learn to code"? It's pretty simple: collectively, they didn't care enough. Not enough to counter 30 years of neoliberalism, and stuff like "just learn to code" are convenient fantasies to avoid dealing with the problems they were too timid to address. IMHO, we have Trump because the Democrats are terrible. They had eight f*cking years to change to actually defeat him, once the problem became evident, but they decided to sit on their hands except to fearmonger.