They’re still trying to court republicans, when they should be going for non-voters.
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God I hate The Atlantic. Good point, but they still had to shoehorn in
Both senators have promised to cover the cost with taxes on corporations and very rich households. But even if that were to happen, it would jeopardize everything else voters expect from the Democratic Party, such as expanding health-care access and investing in clean energy. There is a mathematical limit on how much additional revenue can be generated from raising taxes on high-income households,
Note that in one sentence they lump taxing corporations and rich households together, and then 2 sentences later they dismiss raising taxes on rich households to dismiss both prospects.
Note how they lump billionaires with "rich households," then dismiss taxing billionaires using a consultancy report on households earning over $400k instead of any rigorous economic analysis of taxing literal billionaires.
Note how even the consultant-written report calls taxing rich households a half-step, and that we need that AND MORE. The Atlantic is using a critique saying a tax hike isn't good enough to say that a tax hike isn't good. Note how they implicitly truncate the "enough."
Note how the consultant-written report has an entire section on the social good even the half-step measure will bring, and that The Atlantic will not report on this at all.
Note how at every step they implicitly push and reinforce the notion that anything beyond milquetoast neo liberalism with a veneer of progressivism is too far, even in an article criticizing democrats for doing the same.
Someone pointed out that things make sense when you realize democrats and republicans have the same bosses. I want to add, The Atlantic also has the same bosses.
Most of the Dnc just needs replaced. And a lot of voters are working on it.
Illinois is looking like we have a nice un corrupt candidate to replace dicky durbin for his senator seat.
Juliana. She had no pac or aipac donations.
She has stocks but said she would sell them all. (We will see).
But either way. A good step in the right direction.
I was shocked but so happy that Raja didn’t win. Dude had so many crypto bros bankrolling him.
What agenda?
Exactly. Stopping Donald Trump might resonate with a few but it's not an agenda.
Obama won twice because he had a vision, even if it was more emotion than substance (hope, change, yes we can). Hillary's message was 'I'll use noise machines to ensure only my big donors hear the real vision' and Kamala didn't have much to say that stuck out.
Meanwhile the party is tied up in a bunch of issues that matter to their base but don't resonate with America as a whole, like trans issues and gun control. And they're almost as far in the pocket of big business as the Republicans.
If they got over themselves, drop gun control (which only alienates the rural moderate voters they need to win the elections) and focus on a handful of policies like clean up Washington and reform healthcare that every American should be able to get behind, they would mop up.
... And if the GOP would jettison the religious Evangelical agenda, give up the anti-gay anti-trans stuff and focus on small efficient government, THEY would mop up. But they also have to get rid of Trump.
This one. https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf
Its usually called a platform.
The one where we're going to give out tax credits for starting a small business? Yeah that'll fix it. 🙄
That’s the thing you zeroed in on, eh. Okay.
It's one of the few things they talked about during the campaign. I think that platform needed an update before the 2024 election, and it's completely a throwaway at this point.
For funsies here's the RNC platform for 2024. It's . . . different.
Wouldn't say I'm a fan.
Have they tried courting the gen z vote by tacking 6-7 onto a campaign page for a candidate that already lost?
Learn?
-Democrats!
Ok, sure. Can we purge the warmongering party of rapists and pedophiles, then focus on rebuilding?
Trying to renovate the loungeroom while the kitchen and bedrooms are on fire.
So you're basically saying "can we win the election first and THEN focus on what matters to the electorate?"
The answer is no. That's not how you win elections, which the Dem leadership keeps demonstrating to the detriment of the people.
No, because they have to rebuild first in order to be able to accomplish that purge.