• psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Young and charismatic might mean higher taxes for the rich and more progressive policies.

    The Democratic leadership doesn’t want that. They really like the neoliberal consensus, they like having funding parity with the Republicans. They like being seen as “very serious people “ and they’re deathly afraid of being called socialists.

    The problem is that their apparatchiks all came of age, politically, in the 1990s under that same neoliberal golden age. That’s not the world they’re in anymore. They aren’t running against Bush the Elder, and cutting taxes while playing jazz isn’t going to cut it when they’re losing working class votes to fascists.

    We saw this play out horribly in the UK: where Labour’s party leaders would rather sabotage their own leader because he was too progressive then risk him winning and give socialism credibility.

    The political left really liked the 1990s, but it’s a bygo era and it isn’t coming back.

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      6 months ago

      I agree that the third-way shtick of the Clinton era must go. Watering down reality to appeal to ignorance just doesn’t work.

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        I mean, big nuts that’ll ever happen. There’s no glut of idiots no matter what generation you look at, I’m sure they can just keep appointing cynical self-interested assholes to succeed them whenever they drop.