It’s one of the few things they talked about during the campaign. I think that platform needed an update before the 2024 election, and it’s completely a throwaway at this point.
Exactly. Stopping Donald Trump might resonate with a few but it’s not an agenda.
Obama won twice because he had a vision, even if it was more emotion than substance (hope, change, yes we can). Hillary’s message was ‘I’ll use noise machines to ensure only my big donors hear the real vision’ and Kamala didn’t have much to say that stuck out.
Meanwhile the party is tied up in a bunch of issues that matter to their base but don’t resonate with America as a whole, like trans issues and gun control. And they’re almost as far in the pocket of big business as the Republicans.
If they got over themselves, drop gun control (which only alienates the rural moderate voters they need to win the elections) and focus on a handful of policies like clean up Washington and reform healthcare that every American should be able to get behind, they would mop up.
… And if the GOP would jettison the religious Evangelical agenda, give up the anti-gay anti-trans stuff and focus on small efficient government, THEY would mop up.
But they also have to get rid of Trump.
What agenda?
This one. https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf
Its usually called a platform.
The one where we’re going to give out tax credits for starting a small business? Yeah that’ll fix it. 🙄
That’s the thing you zeroed in on, eh. Okay.
It’s one of the few things they talked about during the campaign. I think that platform needed an update before the 2024 election, and it’s completely a throwaway at this point.
For funsies here’s the RNC platform for 2024. It’s . . . different.
https://prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf
Wouldn’t say I’m a fan.
Exactly. Stopping Donald Trump might resonate with a few but it’s not an agenda.
Obama won twice because he had a vision, even if it was more emotion than substance (hope, change, yes we can). Hillary’s message was ‘I’ll use noise machines to ensure only my big donors hear the real vision’ and Kamala didn’t have much to say that stuck out.
Meanwhile the party is tied up in a bunch of issues that matter to their base but don’t resonate with America as a whole, like trans issues and gun control. And they’re almost as far in the pocket of big business as the Republicans.
If they got over themselves, drop gun control (which only alienates the rural moderate voters they need to win the elections) and focus on a handful of policies like clean up Washington and reform healthcare that every American should be able to get behind, they would mop up.
… And if the GOP would jettison the religious Evangelical agenda, give up the anti-gay anti-trans stuff and focus on small efficient government, THEY would mop up. But they also have to get rid of Trump.