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A lot of people are turning against them, but there is also the big problem that they keep winning. A few years back when at least vaguely left populism was on the march, you had Sanders in the US, Corbyn in the UK, the Australian Labor Party at that time was taking an unusually left wing platform to elections there, in Europe you had thoe parties like Podemos and whatever those sell outs in Greece are called. And not only did they all lose, but the recalibration towards hardcore third way neoliberalism in the aftermath was very successful. Biden won, UK Labour will win, the ALP was elected in Aus after swinging back to right wing politics. Definitely agree that soc-Dems are the biggest hurdle to rational policy in the West, but things will have to get a lot worse before we fall out of this pattern
Is this string of losses because the masses genuinely love capitalism so much, or that we are bad at reaching people who could be on our side?