The thing is, they DO already know the struggles of the working people. Of course they do surveys, data analysis.

The problem is that people don't believe them. Their brainwashing forces them to automatically reject our message, even though our policies poll well across the board -- when they are divorced from the messenger. Attach the name AOC to the idea universal basic income, suddenly it's communism.

The outreach they are doing is some of the most important work we can do right now. The middle class must become convinced that these people are in fact committed to their well-being before they can be mobilized by them.

When AOC/Bernie have an "army", like Trump does -- people who will trust and believe them enough to show up when and where they ask them to, to fight for what we all believe in -- THEN they can start taking very direct and meaningful action.

Think about what we are up against -- money, law, and military. The only way we push through all that is with huge populist support.

That's naïve as fuck and it's not worth the risk. We need to eject these fucking assholes. AOC on the VP will draw in all the same people who she would otherwise attract as president. Bernie is too old for many, many people. Walz is a leftist who can speak in safe, simple White-America terms aand appeal to people who would are wary about AOC. Yes, it sucks that America is sexist, but it also sucks that we are plummeting into fascism. This is a winning ticket.

Kids her age often tend to only care about the opinions of other kids their own age.

They don't. Lines they claimed to have last year have been erased and moved further out. They'll keep moving them.

This is exactly the problem with lumping in everyone who is not a Trump supporter as "liberals". You end up with this completely misguided impression of who "liberals" are and what "liberals" do. It's become a meaningless term.

Buttigieg has made it clear that he is not running for office and is looking forward to playing support over the next four years.

I don't think this is even close to possible. She has removed herself from public view for a reason. On a personal level, she's done. If she had any intentions to run for any kind of office, she would have emerged by now as an opposition leader.

Dude, that's just not true. Did you even try to look into her policy positions?

I just started and still don't understand this lemmy. I thought one of the perks was being able to interact on any server despite which one holds your account.

Found it, thank you!

It's part of the strategy -- publicly condemn people as being the type of person that is easy to hate so that there is support for the punishment.

If he started disappearing people without giving any reason, his supporters would be more likely to take note of that and question him. "Violent criminals and terrorists" on the other hand, that the people can get behind, apparently without question.

Not all 341 million are required, but other than that, yes, successful protests and other forms of resistance have always been about people "all agreeing to do the same thing."

History is your friend here.