AnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]

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Cake day: November 11th, 2023

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  • Didn't Trump win people making under $50k, and the Democrats do best with upper classes?

    As the contradictions inherent in late stage capitalism continue to grow more severe, the poorest Americans will look for any remedy, even if it's one that us Marxists know is self-defeating. Especially when there is no real leftist political movement articulating an alternative to right wing "populism" (which is really just the nationalist bourgeoisie attempting to secure their power against the international, neoliberal, bourgeoisie). And double especially when most Americans don't have a labor union that they can look at as an example of collectivization bringing real benefits to their material conditions.















  • The Dems lost like 15m voters between '20 and '24.

    I am sure a substantial number of those voters were lost because of Gaza, but we need to see polling or other evidence before we can begin to guess how many. It's likely Michigan would have been much bluer without the ongoing genocide, but I am less sure it had a decisive impact in a state like Pennsylvania.

    Meanwhile, voter participation is still crazy low, and I find it very likely a big chunk of Kamala's deficit was motivated by a sluggish economy people were tired of being gaslit about. Where foreign policy did motivate the average American voter, I would think it is couched in chauvinism "why are we giving billions to Ukraine or Israel, when we have a boarder crisis and my nephew is addicted to Fentanyl" type people.

    I wish this election foretold a shift in the American electorate, but I don't see enough evidence to support that conclusion. At least not yet.