• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The thing is for a great many people they don’t care. They aren’t getting deported. They aren’t getting shit on any worse than with Biden.

    That may change, but it didn’t in Trump’s first term. Biden has to be better now, for the working class, than Trump was. And he just isn’t.

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      10 months ago

      The POTUS has little control over the economy. But the economy is way better than when Trump left office, and the outlook is thousands of times better.

      It’s just that people bought the claim that somehow the economy going to shit under trump wasn’t his fault (it wasn’t) but now that the same thing that fucked trump is still fucking shit up, it’s Bidens fault.

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      10 months ago

      Is the suggestion here that minorities shouldn’t or don’t matter even though they are a solid chunk of the working class?

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        10 months ago

        Oh, wow this was supposed to have a response last night. I guess Lemmy hiccuped.

        The problem is that minorities are in fact minorities. You can’t win based on them. And even a bunch of them aren’t seeing the election as an existential fight. They didn’t see an increase in their situation under Biden. If Biden only makes concrete improvements for the upper classes then there’s no direct reason for the lower classes to show up for him.

        This is how autocrats have gotten elected time and time again. Democracy requires actually helping the voting class. When it doesn’t, the voters are more than happy to vote themselves out of a democracy.