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The first party to sanity wins and it seems both are running in the wrong direction. If Trump had come in and not gone crazy with the tariff stuff, been more targeted with the deportations, meaning going after criminals only, and not gotten tied up in the Middle East the Reps. would be all set for a win in the midterms. The Dems. are gifting wins with the radical wing of the party taking over. Just be a little more center right and you will win. It's wild to watch both parties trying to figure out how to help the other one win.
At this point, the dems would really have to drastically swing to be any worse than the spineless sycophants on the other side of the isle.
Yes, but Trump is mismanaging the 80% issues making this a 50-50 contest in the fall. As with everything else, Trump can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory then convince you that he is indeed winning. He understands there is no money to be made championing a majority position. The money, maximum money, to be made is shorting a near certainty while having the control to jeopardize the near certainty. He's a fixer.
and a bunch of folks are trying to pass off their oligarch boot licking as “eat the rich”
Well, it's shoved in their faces constantly. Trump's prattling about his luxury plane, while saying he didn't care about housing. Today's super rich's ostentation approaches that of the French royalty before their fall. It's really a small wonder...
That's half the equation, but Dems are also guilty of doing this to themselves. And speaking frankly, I think it's hilarious to watch them pretend to be shocked that they are suddenly losing primaries to these people.
Blaming Democrats for the malignant inequality of wealth in this country has to be the most illogical stretch I've ever read on this board...
My post had nothing whatsoever to do with wealth inequality. I was positing that wealth inequality isn't the sole driver of why establishment Dems are losing their party.
The NY results are worth noticing, but acting like this means “mainstream Democrats are losing the party” is a huge overreach. Mamdani’s people won in very blue NYC primaries. That matters, but NYC Democratic primaries are not the Democratic Party. They’re low turnout, deep blue, activist-heavy races where the left can punch above its weight.
Then why did you answer my post which was entirely about wealth inequality? My point is simply that wealth inequality gives birth to reaction on the left (sometimes right also). It supersedes both the Democrats and the US. In fact, if we continue along the same path, I expect the Democrats to split entirely. There will be a faction arise and proclaim that they are not going to take it any more. In the past, the inequality arose mostly from inherited wealth and all that goes with it. We've invented our own path to the same sociological status. It happened in the late 19th century and led to almost to civil war with bloody clashes as so much of the means of production were unionized. We self-corrected with the Sherman and Clayton Acts and Roosevelt and the war intervened. Again, my point is about wealth mis-distribution in societies as a whole. The reflection of the resulting discontent in the Democratic party is wholly incidental...
Well, I was conceding your point that wealth inequality was certainly part of the driver of these events, but not the entirety of the reason why the party is evolving to something else. The tweet I posted that started this line of posts was about the Democrat brand. (If you didn't see it, scroll up. It's on this page of the thread.) I also concur with your hypothesis that if the wealth inequality continues, it could ultimately split the party, but again, I don't think that's limited to Dems. Look at what is happening in the Republican party. The civil war between MAGA and the establishment Reps is ongoing and could also result in a party split. People who have been wishing non-top for more than 2 parties may soon get their wish as I can easily see a total of four parties in the not-too-distant future.
