"One of our biggest disadvantages with voters, and especially our base, is people think the party isn't willing to fight. So many people think we're weak or that we're also fully bought by corporations. It is absolutely critical that we fight as hard and loudly as we can."
President Biden could and should have used the bully pulpit t…
"One of our biggest disadvantages with voters, and especially our base, is people think the party isn't willing to fight. So many people think we're weak or that we're also fully bought by corporations. It is absolutely critical that we fight as hard and loudly as we can."
President Biden could and should have used the bully pulpit to name and shame the corporations that obscenely increased their profit margins during the pandemic, and in its aftermath.
And I do think it would have benefited Kamala Harris to more clearly and specifically attack corporate greedflation. That includes highlighting the difference in the rate increases of CEO wages & benefits and that of ordinary workers.
Also, just look at the pent-up rage that was released and aimed at insurance companies in the aftermath of the killing of that CEO. That rage could have been tapped during the presidential campaign!
This can be extended out to a broader point, I think.
It's hard to deny that we're in a populist era for politics, one that dems at the top are not leaning into sufficiently. Republicans are working with it by painting the weak and powerless as voters' enemies, punching down to get the electorate on board with them.
We have a wide opening to punch up, to attack the rich and the powerful, and paint them as our foil. We should take it and use it.
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"One of our biggest disadvantages with voters, and especially our base, is people think the party isn't willing to fight. So many people think we're weak or that we're also fully bought by corporations. It is absolutely critical that we fight as hard and loudly as we can."
President Biden could and should have used the bully pulpit to name and shame the corporations that obscenely increased their profit margins during the pandemic, and in its aftermath.
And I do think it would have benefited Kamala Harris to more clearly and specifically attack corporate greedflation. That includes highlighting the difference in the rate increases of CEO wages & benefits and that of ordinary workers.
Also, just look at the pent-up rage that was released and aimed at insurance companies in the aftermath of the killing of that CEO. That rage could have been tapped during the presidential campaign!
This can be extended out to a broader point, I think.
It's hard to deny that we're in a populist era for politics, one that dems at the top are not leaning into sufficiently. Republicans are working with it by painting the weak and powerless as voters' enemies, punching down to get the electorate on board with them.
We have a wide opening to punch up, to attack the rich and the powerful, and paint them as our foil. We should take it and use it.