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If Harris Loses Today, This Is Why (jacobin.com)

submitted 8 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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To win working-class voters — and possibly today’s election — Democrats need to attack economic elites. But the Kamala Harris campaign hasn’t consistently offered an anti-elite counter to Donald Trump’s right-wing populism.

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[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right, because lowering taxes for the rich is attacking the elite while raising em is not. What fucking twilight world do I live in??? I almost feel like learning some weird esoteric language, just to get away from this American brain rot.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

People are going to be processing and justifying this any way they can. Everyone is going to be an idiot for awhile.