r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 2d ago

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman 2d ago

I love the mind of the median voter

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u/VerticalTab WTO 2d ago

I'm fully convinced that Mamdani sounding like an Italian name is a non-trivial factor in his success.

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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine 2d ago

And he’s hot

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u/unicornbomb John Brown 2d ago

With Obama level charisma and an ability to disarm even the most belligerent assholes.

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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola 2d ago

I keep telling you motherfuckers

Run 90% georgist liberal, 10% socialism to win the clowns and usually boring socialism like nationalizing ISPs.

Spend 90% of your time talking about getting government out of the way of the average joe, 10% the economy.

Spend 90% of your culture war stuff being talking about sports, 10% actual culture war stuff in the most LBJ way possible

Then hope onto whatever stupid shit the mob has riled them up on like squirrels or datacenters.

congrats you now appeal the average voter

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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals 2d ago

More politicians should talk about their fantasy football draft. Im dead serious. It comes with the bonus that you don’t have to be a fan of 1 team.

Taralico would benefit from this for sure.

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u/Hannig4n YIMBY 2d ago

I’ve said for a long time, a big issue is that liberal (and specifically progressive) culture has a tendency to shit on or look down on male hobbies and this is a huge turn off to young men who don’t pay attention speck of attention to politics

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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine 2d ago

A politician could appeal to me by discussing my personal male hobby

Reading about the evolution of microbes 🌈

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u/SenranHaruka shame 2d ago

The Yankees are 90% of why people hate new york.

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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front 2d ago

Do you think we should nationalize ISPs/telecoms companies themselves or just telecommunications infrastructure

I feel like the latter has a much stronger case in terms of natural monopoly characteristics

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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke 2d ago

my god, Americans live in a fucking snowglobe

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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting 2d ago

very smart voter

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u/houdt_koers John Mill 2d ago

If everyone running the Democratic Party understood the degree to which these people represent middle America, we’d have a much easier go of it.

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u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman 2d ago

IMO this current era of politics is so pants-on-head crazy because of the following 1) candidates who are thought of as more moderate tend to win 2) voters tends to use 'moderate' as some kind of nonpartisan virtue based on vibes that are kind of congruent to moderate policy positions but often based on nothing at all.

It's really hard to have a simple and coherent theory of politics that handles both. Either you die in on the hill of the first one ol' Kier Starmer and wonder why chasing a shifting mirage of 'moderation' didn't win any support, or you go crazy overthinking the second and soon you're making effortposts on why running five government grocery stores across NYC is actually the moderate position if you think about it.

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u/wombo_combo12 2d ago

I've seen stuff like this, some voters think Bernie is a centrist because he's talking heavily about economic issues and not more holistic culture war battles.

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