• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I think a big part of this might be the Democrats not wanting to take the populist pro-worker anti-rich stances due to campaign donations.

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      19 hours ago

      Because populism is always dangerous. If Democrats go all in on populism, I will stop voting. I am not going to play this game where we just volley lies back and forth like a tennis ball until someone trips and the other person scores a point.

      I will always support sober technocracy. If American politics actually turns into populist tennis then all is lost.

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        17 hours ago

        Populism isn’t necessarily bad, business antitrust regulations and the 8 hour workday were historically populist policies. Dems shouldn’t go all out on populism, but they should do something to become popular. Elections are a popularity contest after all.