• Saleh@feddit.org
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    14 hours ago

    If “democracy” means i cant pay my bills and my relatives get slaughtered overseas, it seems a pretty lame thing to hold on to.

    And that is again a big failure. People all things considered dont care about democracy as a virtue in itself. They care about economic and social security and a prospect of personal developmemt and social participation. contrary to the popular stories revolutions rarely were fought over political participation. They were fought over empty stomaches and lack of housing.

    Trump understood to pretend to care about these problems of the people. Harris lowkey denied them existing.

    • someguy3@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I agree, though I would amend one part to make my point:

      [Center] people all things considered dont care about democracy as a virtue in itself. [Center people] care about economic and social security and a prospect…

      And that’s exactly where the Dems are going to go. All these left things that left people care about? They will be on the backburner at best.