And, where in the thread again was an instantaneous $5.00 raise to the minimum wage mentioned? Alluded to? Implied?
You are absolutely right, I'm not following the thread. I'm following the discussion, but the thread is a figment of your imagination, and I don't know how to do that.
The Democrats could have run a far better campaign against Trump than they did. Trump was not a better choice, but he did run a better campaign.
If you want people to "wake the fuck up" then you need Democratic leadership that isn't intent on putting them to sleep. The establishment doesn't like it's citizens awake.
Hmmm, "There is nothing else". I'm rolling that around in my head and I just can't figure out how that doesn't imply that Democrats ran the best campaign they could.
It's just reality that people need more than competent administrators. They need inspiration and they need leaders. Republicans inspire hate and lead people to ignorance. Democrats inspire nobody and lead them nowhere. Then Democrats whine that they can't win because people are ignorant and hateful.
You cannot win elections by just being a more competent manager. Most voters aren't competent enough to even recognize it. That's how voters have always been. It's nothing new.
What? You just disagreed with that. Fuckin-a
Your plan is the same plan the establishment uses in every single election. It's the definition of insanity.
It's absolutely bullshit. Most of what progressives want is stuff we had 50 years ago. The boldest new proposal is Medicare for All. Somehow every single other developed economy in the world can achieve universal healthcare, but the richest country in the world can't manage it? BULLSHIT! While you wrong your hands people are dying and lives are being ruined every single day. It's profane, and it's pathetic. Yes, we can do a hell of a lot better.
I've got news for you. The entire party leadership is desperately trying to prevent any change whatsoever.
The Democrats lost ground with every demographic but college educated women. 2020 was an unusually high turnout election. 2024 was a regression to the mean, yet Trump's vote total went up.
Blaming the voters is just electoral masturbation. It doesn't lead anywhere. Do you have a plan to get better voters in 2028? Blaming voters is for politicians that don't care about winning. In other words, it's for establishment Democrats.
It took a long time for nature to figure out how to process wood, but it eventually happened. My wooden furniture is still standing though.
Yeah, consequences like FDR getting elected President four times in a row. That was the last time the Democrats had a popular President.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but America's ability to do much of anything is being dismantled before our eyes. The Democrats played it safe, so voters looked elsewhere.
60 years of unbelievable productivity gains and new technologies, and life has only gotten harder. I think we could do better than that. Bullshit excuses are easy to accept when it hasn't hit you yet.
Let me try to explain something to you. "Large" is not a fixed concept, it's a relative measure. Can you point to me where any bill or proposal for increasing the minimum wage has proposed doing it overnight? They always get phased in, even in the most progressive proposals. When you say "large", or even "large sweeping", no body is going to presume that you are jumping to something that far out of scope.