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A Boring Dystopia
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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
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.
In related news:
I don't pretend to know how to accomplish this. I may be completely wrong here, but two things that have to go:
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.
This won't change. Democrats have to take a lesson in human behaviour. Republican tactics work. Embrace them. Exploit them.
I keep waiting for the Left to fight dirty, but... We go high, they go low, and low is what gets elected