US Democratic Party Problem

I write this before US 2024 presidential election have been called but Trump is clearly winning. The 2024 elections were full of nasty smear campaigns. Most importantly however there was no candidate that addressed any issues I cared for in any meaningful way. If they do not want to do anything I care for, why would I vote for any of them? 

World goes haywire, homelessness and poverty are rampart, housing is unavailable and unaffordable homeless build literal tent cities... So many pressing issues that has to be addressed urgently and all major candidates are talking about is abortion. So pathetically useless, so useless that vote for either of them is a vote wasted.

Here I can partly understand Republican Party, they supposedly represent a more well-off segment of society who does not suffer from these problems. Despite that Trump at least talks about these and many other problems that plagues the country.

The biggest issue is what Democrats are doing. Not only is they do not do anything, but they also even deliberately work to silence the problem, accusing those who talk about these issues of negativism or bigotry. Instead, they prefer to focus on token issues that anyone outside of privileged well-off section of society could not care less about.

Back in the 2016 they had Bernie Sanders who talked about these issues and wanted to address them when in office. Dems silenced him, removed from the race and ignored everything he was talking about as if it was some boogeyman. 

In 2016 Dems lost to Trump. It was a well-deserved loss for a deaf and blind party that ignores need of people it supposedly represents. They learned nothing from that but despite that ended up winning in 2020. Now they hope to win again in 2024.

Dems think the problem is in Trump but in reality, problem is with Dems themselves. The party is deeply out of tough from people it supposed to represent. Not even BBC could find enough difference in political stances of two candidates.

If people consistently vote for a person, you keep calling devil incarnate then it's not them who are stupid, it's you who do not understand or care for people or issues that matter to them. 

People voting for Trump does not mean they like Trump or even agree with him, it just means they hate him less than the Democratic candidate. Biden could win because there is nothing to hate him for. Hillary or Harris could not because they have nothing to offer the people, and they get endorsements from celebrities who spend more money on their hair than most earn a year. It's like Marie-Antoinette and her eat cakes.

Issue with parties being out of touch is not new, many parties suffer from such problem. However, the US Democrats are especially prone to being out of touch. One possible reason for that is that this party did not begun as a Socialist or Labour movement that represented people who work hourly wage and whose members are also worked hourly wage. FDR and his reforms were measures that benefitted working class, but they were measures from above: measures made by a person who himself was not a working-class person and had a socio-economic status and lifestyle much better than those of whom he helped.

After FDR Dems continued to sort of look after working class to keep themselves electable, but it was from the above. Overtime they grew to take working class vote for granted. They stop thinking of what these people need and instead begun to think in terms of what we want from them. They replaced care for actual working class with care for some token minorities, women and other such picture perfect disenfranchised that would make a champagne socialist look good among his peers. 

All the while a common average boring Walmart or McDonalds employee with an enormous debt is simply forgotten and ignored. However, these people are many and they matter because they vote. When you remove Bernie Sanders whom many of them supported, they were angry and voted against you. Now when you cannot cancel student debt and instead focus on abortion issue, they are angry again.

No matter how right maligned Obamacare, it actually helps a lot of people with their expenses on health and made many people more well off than what they were before. 

Ever since Obama there was not any proposal from Dems that would see significant portion of poor people being better off than what they were before him. Biden Administration tried to cancel some of student debt, but Supreme Court have blocked it. Kamala Harris have not mentioned what she will do to get it passed.

As a little final extra: Tweedledee and Tweedledum illustrates well how two main candidates differ from each other. I guess red one wins this time. I already mentioned somewhere how some of Kamala Harris speeches make you feel she is right wing candidate. She talks more of tax relief compared to student debt of minimal wage. In contrast Donald Trump feels very left wing when he criticizes establishment and the rich.

In a choice between bad and even worse than that, bad won. I am not sure if it's something worth celebrating though.