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Why can't a leftist candidate do that? What's the secret sauce? Is it violence, or the threat of violence?
It would be easy like this
I will make healthcare free for everyone! We're going to have the best healthcare in the world and billionaires are going to pay for it!
I'm going to start a federal drug program! We're going to have the cheapest drugs in the world and no-one will have to decide between rent and their medication!
I'm going to start a national Give Parents Freedom Act, where we will provide free daycare for any parent making under 100k/year! We will pay for it by cutting the military budget by 1%!
In my first 100 days I'm going to sign the mothers are awsome executive order mandating 1 year of maternity leave for mothers and 3 months for fathers. Employers will not be allowed to fire any new parent.
I'm also going to divert ICE money into a new consumer agency called "IYCIWFYU" (If you collude I will fuck you up) their entire mission will be to investigate corporations that are price fixing and stealing money from the people.
I'm going to make digital Tax filing FREE for everyone and divert all IRS investigations into people making over 5 million per year!
Instead we get
I'll try to pass a bipartisan bill to maybe fix some roads... ๐คทI don't know... We'll see what Republicans let me do ๐ข
I'm not American but you get my vote
I don't think this is the whole secret because that's basically what our left party in Germany is doing and they're at 11 % in polls...
People are looking for an enemy image onto which they can project their frustration, and they are not willing to target the wealthy class because they irrationally hope to belong to it someday. Instead, they direct their frustration against the poorer and weaker, as it is much easier to distinguish oneself from a group that one definitely does not want to belong to.
This is class struggle from above...
I think the secret sauce is critical thinking. No joke.
Stupid followers that need to be told to hate someone.
Could probably succeed on a "hate the billionaires" ticket, if these people weren't so programmed with capitalism.
Fascism doesn't have to model reality, just knit together a story that confirms underlying biases of the "middle class" without questioning the system that privileged them, but is failing.
Leftists have the advantage in that we can describe exactly why your material conditions are eroding while we are more productive than ever, but for someone who was privileged under capitalism, its easier to believe the system that privileged them is good and just, its just foreigners and minorities who are exploiting them.
We need a fake fascist candidate then who's just owning the libs at every turn.
"We're going to build massive social housing programs and get the homeless of the street,what are ya gonna complain about now, shitlibs?
We're going to close the gender pay gap and raise federal minimum wage to a living standard. Where's your talking points now you fucking commie bastards?!
Oh, that's a nice 'eat the rich' banner you e got there. Well these greedy libtards are going to have to go hungry, because we are eating the rich first! Cry into your government-issued fucking trans flag, theythems!'