- Housing
- Student Loans
- Medical Care
- Child care/The cost of children (assuming that’s something you want to do not making a value judgement)
- Education
- Wages/“JOBS™©®”/“THE ECONOMY™©®”
- Inflation/Cost of Living/Value of currency
- Just the political issues we all face but are the best “hot button” issues
All that sort of stuff. I’m not minimizing stuff like Palestine of course, but I don’t recall in the seemingly endless 2020-2024 election campaign. I don’t really think I heard any sort of real “kitchen table issues”. I feel like even the most basic political issues have been obfuscated or ignored. It feels like these very political issues have been removed from the sphere of political discourse.
I don’t know what my larger point is, but it feels strange to think that for example I haven’t heard a single mention of something like higher education costs for example. This isn’t just a dunk on Democrats either, though it is worth saying “get fucked losers”, but I think since about 2020 I haven’t heard a damn thing about healthcare or housing in a real political way from the big two or the media in general.
Again this isn’t to meant to minimize any other real problems either, not trying to “this is more important than that”, just saying I haven’t political people talk about politics all the while not being able to escape the political dimension
Their politics are so devoid of politics. I still to this day cannot name a single GOOD thing the DNC can point to and say “we did that”. I can point to bad stuff for sure, but zero things that make my life, or the lives of people I know (or perhaps don’t know) better.
I think about that one all the time. Part of the big reason I think this leftist shit works is because it forces you (the rhetorical you of course) to see others like yourself. Even if I’m not them, or I don’t rock like they do, I can at least see how their conditions will be my own. I want them to prosper so I can too, because I certainly know as they suffer I will too. Solidarity with others (within reason, we aren’t trying to link up with the people doing the harm of course) is like only way out. These libs man they don’t want solidarity but they also don’t want whatever is coming, like what the fuck man?
Bluesky libs and libs like them have their own uber-lib version of solidarity and it’s “building coalitions”. And - of course - the concept means people should do exactly what normie libs and the democratic party want.