RabbleRebel@lemmy.wtf to politics on db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 12 days agoWhy is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkWhy is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy?www.theguardian.comRabbleRebel@lemmy.wtf to politics on db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square3linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squaretherealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·12 days agoYou mean… apart from them not wanting to admit that Genocide Joe essentially tossed the election to MAGA?
minus-squareWalleyeWarrior@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoBecause it shows that the Democrats’s commitment to their donors at the expense of their voters is a losing strategy. They would rather continue to lose elections as diet Republicans instead of actually doing what the electorate wants.
minus-squaretherealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·12 days ago Because it shows that the Democrats’s commitment to their donors Liberalism is a fundamentally oligarchic ideology - which, by default, also makes it fundamentally anti-democratic. Perhaps it’s time we stop lying to ourselves about it.
You mean… apart from them not wanting to admit that Genocide Joe essentially tossed the election to MAGA?
Because it shows that the Democrats’s commitment to their donors at the expense of their voters is a losing strategy. They would rather continue to lose elections as diet Republicans instead of actually doing what the electorate wants.
Liberalism is a fundamentally oligarchic ideology - which, by default, also makes it fundamentally anti-democratic.
Perhaps it’s time we stop lying to ourselves about it.