Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.

Summary

Democrats must reclaim their identity as the party of the working class to regain electoral strength.

Despite pro-labor policies under Biden, working-class voters feel disconnected, seeing Democrats as defenders of a failing system.

The party’s decline traces back to NAFTA and neoliberal economic policies that favored corporations over workers.

A generational effort to prioritize labor rights, fair wages, and economic security while addressing working-class frustrations are needed.

Without serious reform, Democrats will continue losing ground to populist alternatives.

  • MisterD@lemmy.ca
    101·
    19 hours ago

    The best way is to bring single payer health care.

    Every other G7 nation has it

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      29·
      19 hours ago

      They tried to do that the moment they had senate supermajority with caucusing ind over a decade ago, but caucusing ind Joe Lieberman voted against it and the GOP filibustered it in 2010.

      They haven’t even had more than 50 since like 2013, they only had bare minimum to select majority leader in 2021 because of caucusing independents and VP tiebreaker.

      If you want single payer then the only way to get that is not to change the DNC, it’s to convince millions more people to vote for them or to remove Republicans.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        19 hours ago

        ACA was never going to be single payer. Lieberman played the bad guy to kill the public option, but it was pretty obvious it was only there to be bargained out in the first place.

        Single payer, on the other hand, was never even considered to be an option.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          28·
          18 hours ago

          They voted on singlepayer and it lost by Independent Joe Liebermans vote.

          You cannot blame that on the DNC.