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This is the state of a constituency which thinks progress is impossible without leaving the marginalized behind. The failure in expectation is the leaders' faults too.
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Purge neoliberals and ensure actual leftists and progressives control the party. Watch as elections start being won again.
That’s just about the opposite point of the article but ok
Cool so we both agree the article is wrong lol.
Democrats want the party to focus on their day-to-day needs and want wealthier Americans to pay more in taxes.
That was the express point of the article.
The only two parts that deviated from that message: saying democrats focus too much on transgender issues and it talked up Gavin Newsom.
So if that wasn't the point of the article that's what you're left with.
Democrats want new leaders for their party, which many feel isn't focusing enough on economic issues and is over-emphasizing issues like transgender rights and electric vehicles, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
over-emphasizing issues like transgender rights
I know this isn't the point of the article, but it's distressing that the average Democrat voter also believes that minimal defense of trans rights from existential threats is over-emphasis.
Extremely depressing to read that. People don't understand that you can't have a society that truly respects everyone's rights except those people. Trans rights are the frontline of the fight for everyone's rights, not some optional extra.
It's not the conclusion someone should draw from this poll, but it's the thing these authors want front and center. They won't show us the actual poll results, but that is far from the only disconnect and certainly a minor one since few Democrats think that's a primary focus, but it's the only example they provide of issues respondents believe are more broadly prioritized by leadership than the actual responses. It's at most a minor point, but the authors elevate it to first paragraph material even while the other discrepancies are much higher.
Trans rights isn't a winning political strategy.
I say this as a trans person. Americans don't care about 1.3% of the population, they care about themselves.
People want economic progress, that's why they elected a strongman conman.
It just doesn't actually seem like the democratic party does anything for trans rights? As an outsider looking in, it just seems like the republicans are screaming about trans people and how horrible they are, and how horrible the democrats are for supporting them, while the democrats completely ignores everything about trans people.
Yeah, they capitulate on bills that seek to delegitimize trans people. So not only are they choosing identity politics instead of real policy, but even fails to support the targeted groups they talk about protecting.
Neoliberals are beginning to look equally as invalid as conservativism
Neoliberals are beginning to look equally as invalid as conservativism
It should never have been more than a pace behind.
They don't. Republicans want us dead and Democrats don't want to think about us.
I think that says more about lack of coverage/attention to economic issues than anything. At least in my charitable reading of it.
I think it's more that we have problems affecting large amounts of the population and people are probably tired of trans being 1% of the population but taking up more than 1% of the discourse. And largely only to the end result of being used as wedge to hurt trans people.
The sad reality is, it would be better for trans rights for the left to win, and the left isn't going to win by ignoring tactics and strategy in a game that the right is metagaming into oblivion with voter suppression and gerrymandering.
I think they forgot to add the option of "growing a spine" to the poll because that would be #1