https://subium.com/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3lam2fniy2w2q
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I forgot to mention this…
No results found for “working class” site:kamalaharris.com/.
She did mention the “working class” once in her convention speech. Checkmate, tankies!
In the Bay — in the Bay — you either live in the hills or the flatlands. We lived in the flats. A beautiful, working-class neighborhood of firefighters, nurses and construction workers. All who tended their lawns with pride.
The defining characteristic of the working class - we tend our lawns with pride. You know, those lawns we have. In front of the houses we own.
I grew up in a world like she is describing, and things are nothing like that today.
It doesn’t matter what she said or what she put on her website; she never tried to create a coherent vision of who she was.
Kamala: I believe climate change is an existential threat and am also completely pro fracking.
The Libs: See, she said climate change is an existential threat.
Kamala: We should have a ceasefire and my support for Israel is unconditional.
The Libs: See, she called for a ceasefire.
Not that this is a particularly new phenomenon among politicians. Heck, it worked fantastically for Trump despite the fact that his speech is essentially gasses escaping from the fermenting porridge that is his brain. The question folks should be asking is why it didn’t work for her. Her lack of charisma? The fact that dems seem constitutionally incapable of not sounding condescending? The fact that no one reads candidate websites any more and the campaign’s messaging was mostly “Wow the Cheneys like us now 😍”?
Her tactics did work for her. Her base has become immensely cult like and she did have a lot of voters. The actual problem was inflation + Palestine.
You cannot get by with an incoherent narrative on those issues because when people feel things with their wallet or have dead family members, they will pay a lot closer attention.
Funny part is that the term “middle class” originated from feudal times to describe people who were neither aristocrats/landed gentry (aka upper class) nor peasantry/proles (aka lower class). So basically, the bourgeoise and highly educated bureaucracy.
Middle class
Yeah, that’s gonna be a no. I do not perceive myself as a yeoman property owner proto-Nazi.
It’s funny how after a dem bloodbath - libs suddenly rediscover the term working class. I bet they use it for ~4 more months and then they’ll drop it again because being middle class is a feeling.
The Democrats didn’t ignore the working class. Not even the white working class. Not even the white male straight cisgender working class. There were actual policies, unlike Trump, that would have benefited them significantly.
The media ecosystem made sure that they didn’t hear about them.
https://subium.com/profile/tlecaque.bsky.social/post/3lamnivcja22n
So Kamala could have prepped a list of these policies, eli5 taking points and she should have went to Rogan show and talked about them.
Your comment made me realize that Bluesky is going to be far worse than Reddit for the foreseeable future. At least at Reddit - you can have actual conversations. People might lecture you but you can make your point anyway and who knows who’s reading along.
But Bluesky is in kneejerk liberalism mode. If you mentioned Rogan - chances are they going to respond without thinking but respond with sarcasm which gets them likes too. Post-election - many Bluesky libs are convinced Americans are unreachable. The vast voting horde is hopelessly stupid, hopelessly racist, hopelessly misogynistic, and unwilling or unable to think. And as a bonus - libs will block or mute you which limits your ability to have conversations.
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I made a comment based on what you said.
Kamala could have prepped a list of these policies, eli5 taking points and she should have went to Rogan’s show and talked about them. Why didn’t she?
https://subium.com/profile/boldaslove.bsky.social/post/3lamz4boitk2c
I expect blocks, mutes, and ridicule but we’ll see.
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He had already muted me - haha! But as I understand it - my comment is still visible to others.
