We need to expand Medicare, social security, and provide new programs to make life easier for young families. We need better public schools for our students, free community college and trade programs, and a slew of new workplace rights.
In other words, we need candidates that can marry working-class populism with progressive economic policies in a way that can reach deep into Trump-country and win over enough independents to deliver a commanding majority in 2028.
I appreciate that the thumbnail identifies the Democrats’ Corey Booker problem.
Democrats have been gifted a victory thanks to Trump’s economic mismanagement. They ought to accept it with some humility and spend the next two years hammering out a political vision that can actually win voters’ loyalty for the long haul.
Project 2025 came in 2023, a year before republican wins in 2024. Here the author of this article is saying democrats need to hammer out a plan after their election. Why don’t democrats have a blueprint for their own leadership? The Heritage Foundation led with their plan, it seems democrats are playing defense after the fact.
We need to expand Medicare, social security, and provide new programs to make life easier for young families. We need better public schools for our students, free community college and trade programs, and a slew of new workplace rights.
Is there wide agreement on all of that? Specifics. What about Medicare for All? That would make life a lot easier for families to know they’re not gonna be wiped out by medical debts.
Yes, gop has had plans going back to powell memo, some secret since they know they are full of lies and misleading. They hated school integration and did all kinds of horrible stuff out of the prejudice. Dems don’t do this so much since they’re not the same hierarchy and strict rules, more a collection of groups. They oust people for bad behavior and don’t have so much cult following.
Yes, universal healthcare takes power from the owners too so people are more free to leave jobs and costs less. Same with other public goods like lower childcare and housing costs. It’s better all around for the majority, proven where they have these, yet too many don’t vote each time for the only chance there is.
Too much contradiction in that about issues they label working class, but say the majority support the very things it says they don’t support. Maybe it means a majority supports equality and knows climate change is human caused, but don’t care enough to vote consistently for them. They often claim economic reasons, but Dem platform helps people and economy more, as proven where more good policies and more good outcomes. The truth is that too many don’t show up with low turnout rates, or they flip flop to whatever the wind or tiktok told them, they assume or use feels to decide rather than proven data, over and over again.
Democrats need to address the affordability issue as a wage and job crisis, not just a price problem, and that means it’s an expensive problem to fix.
Yes, pass minimum wage if possible, but many price things are not normally under political control, they are the owners’ fault for high prices, low wages and less benefits. The tariffs and war is fully on maga blame, while bird flu and global economic issues were not the Dem’s fault, but too many bought the propaganda on all the media. Joe was too old, but this old fool is fine, stupid chosen hypocrisy.
Healthcare for all, reduced childcare costs and paid leave from work reduce scarcity and costs for people very directly and proven. No more medical bankruptcy and pay less per year and get the needed care. Use public land for housing and small grocery stores where needed so the land cost is lower. These things are done today and can be copied and the people want this, but may not vote for it.
Also throwing cash at young families, isn’t an answer. A one time check isn’t going to help anyone, they need sustained community support, reasonable and consistent work hours, safe and consistent housing that isn’t getting sold out from under them every other year and rents that don’t double every 6 months.
You can’t raise a family in a perpetual crisis. Everyone misses the one thing that makes life so much more difficult now for young families. Inconsistency. No one can lay down roots or raise a family when everything is in a state of constant disruption. Even in some of the most desperate eras of the past, you could be reasonably certain most of the things that were true when you were 20, would still be how things worked when you were 65. You can’t get a home loan when you’re pulling in 6 figures one year, and then homeless the next. You can’t pick a college major or a trade when entire industries are disappearing randomly. People are people, not fungible assets. Expertise, family, and community take time and work. Prices skyrocketing is a big part of the problem too, but it’s really just one part of a bigger problem.
You donʻt wait to control bleeding to give fluids in the ER. Its almost always a “both and” response.
Look, no one is going to say no to a check. You can’t let them starve to death while you’re cooking up a banquet, but under no circumstances should we consider that “doing something.”
but under no circumstances should we consider that “doing something.”
This is incredibly fucking stupid, and deeply toxic.
Putting money into peoples pockets is literally doing not just something, but the actual thing.
See: COVID payments, Child Tax Credit, Social security.
And on the other side see: 2008/9 bank bailouts, the foreclosure crisis, and on and on…
Fucking miss me with this heritage fucking society fucking bootstraps bullshit. If we want people out of poverty, make direct payments to poor people so they donʻt have to live in poverty. Its simple as.
This neoliberalism/ neoconservatism needs to be kicked to the curb.
You can keep downvoting me, but you know I’m right. What we need is systemic overhaul and that includes effective support systems. I’m not a neoliberal, I’m more socialist than you are likely. I’m saying you don’t fix this with a bandaid. We need reform that prioritizes the working class and a promise of stability. We need medicaid for all because it decouples healthcare from work and creates stability for people. We need community housing and public options that put pressure on rent seekers to control costs and create circumstances where people can settle for 20 years without having to worry if they’re going to be homeless next month for reasons completely outside their control. We need support for community institutions; libraries, youth groups, and social spaces. We need controls on worker exploitation and wage theft, and limits on time-abuse to give people the opportunity to USE those public institutions, and consequences with teeth for corruption.
And yes, direct support to those who need it is going to be a part of it, but it’s not a cure-all.
No, you are NOT fucking right and you aren’t addressing my principal point. UBI or any other thing that outs money into people’s hands right now isn’t just a solution for right now, it’s also fundemental to those issues down the line.
It’s also fundemental to Democrats building a bigger majority in 2028, in that they need to do something right now to make a palpable, sensible, difference in people’s lives they can feel right now
You can demand it, it’s not going to happen. Period. You want UBI in 2 years? You’ll be lucky to see it in 20. You might get a 1 time check. If that’s your bar, you’re going to have president Rubio in 2028, because Jesus could walk into congress and bitch slap every republican and it still wouldn’t achieve that.
And you can make the claim that we should put off things that would actually improve peoples lives, for years.
One path takes Dʻs to a W in 2028. The other doesnt.
Like fucking clockwork, and in real time, Jamaal Bowman makes my point for me:
For a couple hundred dollars a MONTH we cut child poverty in HALF. And we could have done that FOREVER, if Biden wouldnt have worked to kill their own bill, in favor of more technocratic solutions like you are arguing for. So nah. No.
They’re not going to make regular payments, they’re going to try a one time check and pretend that fixes things. A real consistent program to support young people isn’t even on the table and you know that.
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I don’t see the big rush. We can always import new scabs if someone dies. The scab can probably do that someone’s job better, too. And people are popping out new kids like crazy. There’s nothing to worry about.
