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The Democrats’ Enabling Act: Senate votes to fund Trump’s dictatorship (www.wsws.org)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Senate vote comes amidst a full-scale rampage by the Trump administration against the working class and democratic rights.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. Social-democracy is the way forward, I just wish there was a party that would focus on restoring the rules based order and general personal liberties, without getting baited into endless culture wars on hyperspecific topics like trans rights by conservatives. I figure saying this is unpopular on very liberal skewing platforms such as here, but I consider this a huge reason why the middle has largely abandoned Democrats. Feels like Democrats lost the plot and now everything else with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I thought Sanders did a good job of framing things around broad, working class issues that most people can get behind while still including minority groups without making that the entire focus. The Democrats' shift toward hyper specific cultural battles seems to have cost them a lot of the middle.