Summary

Democrats must reclaim their identity as the party of the working class to regain electoral strength.

Despite pro-labor policies under Biden, working-class voters feel disconnected, seeing Democrats as defenders of a failing system.

The party’s decline traces back to NAFTA and neoliberal economic policies that favored corporations over workers.

A generational effort to prioritize labor rights, fair wages, and economic security while addressing working-class frustrations are needed.

Without serious reform, Democrats will continue losing ground to populist alternatives.

  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    Things change over time. What works on one generation may not work on the next whose minds were conditioned differently in their formative years.

    I think propaganda still works as a concept, but Democrats are trying to brainwash people like it’s the 1960s and Republicans are on the cutting edge of lying.

    I’d compare it to, say, the Lutheran Church vs a modern megachurch. Same core absurd claim about heaven and whatnot, but the megachurch knows how to package it for the modem gull.