They'd need a solidly progressive platform... The individuals matter less than the goals... Leave guns and abortion on the table for later... Stick to all the things we mostly all agree on. Keep the messaging simple too... "Life sucks. It sucks because you don't have enough money...YOU deserve to be making more money for whatever you are doing. The corporations and billionaires are taking YOUR money, and we're going to take it back and give it to you"... Maybe follow up with a bunch of times rich people got more at everyone else's expense.
To be fair, Republicans don't go after them either... And the people who aren't Democrats always "make them lose", if everyone was a Democrat, they'd always win everything (okay, they'd probably still figure out a way to lose, but I hope you get my point)
Okay, but my point remains unchanged
Except quite a few voted last time and then not this time... So we know they do vote sometimes
Part of me thinks Bernie never really wanted to be president, I think he thinks he can do more good as a senior senator pushing the DNC left while trying to stop the right from whatever evil they're planning this week, and maybe he can, but so far that hasn't worked very well. If he and the squad broke ties with the DNC and started their own party, and were able to pull enough of the left off the couch and away from the DNC to make the DNC the "spoiler" that needed to "fall in line or else Trump wins" that would be the best imo
It would be relatively easy to take over the DNC (and the state and local parties), but very few people outside the establishment know how politics within the party works
1/3 of voting age Americans voted for Trump (that 3rd wants fascism)... 1/3 for Kamala, and 1/3 stayed home... A lot of the 1/3 that stayed home did so because they don't want neolib policy, and probably a lot of the 1/3 that voted for her also don't want neolib policy. There's very little to support the idea that anyone "shifted right"... They shifted home when they weren't given an option to vote against genocide and other neolib bullshit
Buy secluded land and build a prep retreat/bunker just in case. Then take some time, hire a team, and map out a path to first taking over the Democratic party, maybe rebrand, then a path to taking over the government and updating the Constitution.
I've been thinking if I could ever afford it, maybe work with section 8 to actually buy the property for the "renter". Sort of a lease to own, except section 8 pays. Once I've gotten my money back plus a small profit the home belongs to the tenant, and I build more housing, rinse and repeat. Would probably need to hire someone to help people manage that though. Some people don't know how to maintain a home because they've always rented or because mental illness or whatever.
Yeah... But imagine if you needed to know what a tarrif is before you could vote
Sure, but Musk clearly named his new department after his crypto scam
I know it could never be fairly implemented... But there really should be a class or test or something people need to pass to be allowed to have kids
Good... We'll need them for the resistance
Many legal immigrants get pissed if you conflate them with illegal immigrants. They try very hard distance themselves from those people. Couple that with pervasive machismo and Catholic ignorance and this is what you get.
Sadly these rich farmers won't find out anything... They'll say there's shortages because of the deportations, whether there actually are or not, and will jack up prices to more than cover their profit at consumer expense. They fuck around, WE (and the slaves immigrant farm workers) get to do the finding out.
Time to arm yourselves... Everyone
Ah...so they're continuing with their support of the evil... They learned nothing... Are we sure they aren't Democrats?
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline... We'll need everyone
Thanks for this... Yeah, I think the Dems need to run a campaign of "we're going to unfuck the election system first and foremost" (and have a good plan) to get a lot of the couch sitters to vote.
What does it mean, to live a moral life?
Thought, maybe we could all use a little inspiration from back in the day.
How about targeted short term boycotts?
Do you think it would be possible (and how could we get it done?) to unite millions of people who collectively agree to target an individual company for a short time unless the company meets our demands? For example, for the month of March we all pledge to not purchase anything from Apple unless Apple does XYZ... Either they do it, or we tank their stock... Move on to the next company target
What if we ended all taxes on individuals, and just charged the cost of society to the corporations?
This idea has been kicking around in my head for a while, and I'm hoping some Lemmy geniuses can poke holes/ flesh it out with me.
Every person I've ever heard of works for and gets paid by some form of company. So instead of the company paying the workers and then those workers getting taxed, why not just tax it all to the corporations to begin with? Instead of hundreds of millions of individuals to think about, the IRS (in US) could just focus on a few million companies.
We the people democratically decide what we think is needed for a functioning society, and charge it to the corporations.
I'd say each company should be responsible for paying the same percentage of the bill as percentage of total "profits" they made. Like, if Apple makes 10% of all the combined profits of all the companies this quarter, they are responsible for paying 10% of the bill. Highest paid employee can make 10x what the lowest paid employee (including contracted and foreign workers) makes; more than that gets included in the calculation as part of the company's "profits". (So that CEO can still get paid absurd amounts of money, but the company will still pay taxes on most of it)
What if we created some sort of secure opinion/voting app where people go to cast their vote on whatever people think needs to be voted on. Should there be UBI? Should it be a token, living, or thriving wage? (Personally, I'd go with thriving and tie it to inflation) Single payer healthcare? All education paid for? Stop funding genocide? No more polluting the planet, or at least force companies to pay to clean up their own messes? When and where are companies allowed to market to us? Where should the threshold of agreement be to enact changes, 40% 50%+1 60%? Etc etc
Then we elect people who agree to simply enact what the people democratically agree on... And if the people don't agree, they'll stay away from it or leave it to the states. And hopefully someday we could build it out so that state and local governments work this way too.
I think we get bogged down on the 2 or 3 things we disagree on and allow that to mean we never get the things we DO agree on. Let's get the things we agree on first, and then continue debating the things we disagree on.
Also I think this would be a long term plan. 12 years would give us 2 full election cycles here in the US and would give zoomers time to grow up, settle, and start to really vote (hopefully with this new system).
Anyway, like I said, let's poke holes and figure out solutions. Thanks