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[–] ealoe@ani.social 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Instead of mocking people like this, us on the left really need to understand them and how to appeal to them better than Trump. Dude is a billionaire and managed to convince working people he's on their side. He's winning the populism game because no one else is even playing it. Time to beat him at his own game

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you get the Democrats to run somebody like Sanders when they don't even have a primary? The DNC boned the entire country. Again.

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

In related news:

Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders

In June 2016, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for violating the DNC Charter by rigging the Democratic presidential primaries for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders. Even former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid admitted in July 2016, “I knew—everybody knew—that this was not a fair deal.”

[–] aphlamingphoenix@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't pretend to know how to accomplish this. I may be completely wrong here, but two things that have to go:

Religious thought ("faithbrain" or the Peter Pan-esque belief that things are true because you believe they are true, despite a lack of evidentiary or even argumentative support, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary)
Social media bubbles (billionaires controlling the content people see, creating bubbles of "information" that skew the public in their favor)

There's almost certainly more to do as well, but those things stand out to me. Also, it seems hard to believe that we could make any progress on these fronts given the current situation.

[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This won't change. Democrats have to take a lesson in human behaviour. Republican tactics work. Embrace them. Exploit them.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I keep waiting for the Left to fight dirty, but... We go high, they go low, and low is what gets elected