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by Thomas B. Edsall @nytimes

„This column is an experiment of sorts: an outline of items in a hypothetical 2028 Democratic Party platform designed to restore the party’s appeal to centrist working- and middle-class voters.

My suggestions are subject to challenge and dispute, and as usual, I have sought out comments from strategists and political experts. In the expectation that this will turn out to be a more-than-one-column project, I welcome comments, critiques and suggestions from readers. What did I miss? What did I overemphasize?

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, let’s evoke the name the fascists used for their party platform! That’ll convince everyone we’re not fascist lite and to vote for us!

Let’s go!

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Sorry. I’m not going to read last anything that seems to emulate the assholes currently destroying our country, and certainly not something that isn’t a plan for right now. If a political strategist is actually saying anything other than “fight now”, and ideas how to fight this shit now, they should be fired.

We cannot wait for 2028. We can’t even wait for November. It might already be too late.

[–] beelzebum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This guy has ideals! He will smugly do nothing!

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

My neighbors are being shot in the street. Murdered in broad daylight by jackbooted thugs. They’re being abducted from their homes, from their schools, from their churches, sent to disease-ridden concentration camps.

And all you ever said probably is “oh he has a cute hat”.

The fascists are in the street killing peole and you fucking think this is about ideals. Fuck me. This is about doing something now. Because it’s already too late and now is all we fucking have.