RabbleRebel@lemmy.wtf to politics on db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agoWhy is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkWhy is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy?www.theguardian.comRabbleRebel@lemmy.wtf to politics on db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square3linkfedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squareWalleyeWarrior@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoBecause it shows that the Democrats’s commitment to their donors at the expense of their voters is a losing strategy. They would rather continue to lose elections as diet Republicans instead of actually doing what the electorate wants.
minus-squaretherealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days ago Because it shows that the Democrats’s commitment to their donors Liberalism is a fundamentally oligarchic ideology - which, by default, also makes it fundamentally anti-democratic. Perhaps it’s time we stop lying to ourselves about it.
Because it shows that the Democrats’s commitment to their donors at the expense of their voters is a losing strategy. They would rather continue to lose elections as diet Republicans instead of actually doing what the electorate wants.
Liberalism is a fundamentally oligarchic ideology - which, by default, also makes it fundamentally anti-democratic.
Perhaps it’s time we stop lying to ourselves about it.