Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
  • radiofreebc@lemmy.world
    99·
    13 天前

    People like him, HRC and DWS are the reason Bernie wasn’t the DNC candidate in 2016…and are why we’re in the mess we’re in right now.

    Trump didn’t win in 2016, HRC lost.

    They were too scared Bernie would expose their crimes and corruption, and now we’re living in the Turd Reich.

    EDIT: DWC should have been DWS

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      13 天前

      He reminds me a lot of HRC. We know he exists to run for president, but we know very little about what he actually stands for. We know what he’s against.

    • NateNate60@lemmy.world
      24·
      13 天前

      Social democratic policies were also just not as popular in 2016 as they are now. In just a few weeks, a full decade will have passed since 2016.

      In 2016, people more or less took American democracy for granted. The voters never knew about the danger that Trump’s ideology posed to the republic. This was following eight years of Obama, so right-wingers were thought of as fundamentally just people with bad policy ideas and not people intent on destroying democracy.

      Only since then have people really started coming around to social democracy, democratic socialism, and other left-wing ideas. Over time, people have begun to realise, Bernie was right.

      It really is too bad that Bernie is so old. He deserves a good retirement, but given the current political climate, he’s going to keep fighting for the working class until the bitter end.

        • NateNate60@lemmy.world
          6·
          13 天前

          Traditionally, when times are good economically are when people find time to advance social policies. That’s why the Civil Rights movement found success in the 1960s. I’m sure had King marched across the South in 1929, the voters and political class would have had no appetite for it. Democrats through the economy was fixed forever once Obama was elected, but they were evidently wrong.

    • techmaster7d@lemmy.world
      6·
      13 天前

      LOL. Bernie wasn’t the candidate because, brace yourself, he is/was unpopular with the general public. Hillary lost because most people are morons and cannot think for themselves.

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      4·
      13 天前

      Yeah, Bernie would have been bad for business for corpo dems, but the real reason inner party members picked HRC was to get her either up or out, then everyone in the Democratic party moves up one level.

      Whether HRC won or lost, everyone below her in the pyramid would win.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      12·
      13 天前

      id say hes further right than biden, he makes him look tame in comparison. newsom was willing to entertain right wingers like nick fuentes.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    13 天前

    Let’s all be clear, this is him campaigning for president.

    What, the, fuck. What goddamn idiots are advising Democratic candidates?

  • FE80@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    13 天前

    This guy is auditioning for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      16·
      13 天前

      dont think he needs it, the DNC likely determined already. hes just giving himself more exposure so that people vote on him based on recognizability alone. thats also how trump won too, being in MEDIA alot helped him.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        12 天前

        I’ve never heard of the MEDIA alot, but that species has alot of members.

        It’s amazing how brainwashed people are by TV. Trump was a blowhard business failure, but the TV show made him seem like some kind of decisive business genius, so people voted for that. I wouldn’t be surprised if Zelenski was elected to lead Ukraine because he’d played the role on TV previously. A lot of it is unconscious, so people aren’t going to admit that that’s the reason why, but it has to be a factor.

        I’m sure it’s related to parasocial relationships and to stalkers. People think they know someone personally because they see them on TV or in movies, or hear them on the radio, or whatever.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
          1·
          12 天前

          he had his reality show you’re fired it helped him to gain popularity, plus his failed trump towers, vodkas, always was “known” as wealthy businessmen.

  • inari@piefed.zipEnglish
    25·
    13 天前

    The one good thing here is he’s made it clear who’s his boss (and it isn’t the people)

  • zikzak025@lemmy.world
    17·
    13 天前

    Gavin realizing he will never be president, so he is trying to secure his future as a Silicon Valley lobbyist.

  • Reality_Suit@lemmy.world
    12·
    13 天前

    As long as there are different socio-economic classes, it will always be class warfare. Everything will be done to veer the fight away from class warfare. Legitimate causes like feminism and equal rights will be used as distractions to veer away from class warfare. It will always be the mega rich vs everyone else.

  • boaratio@lemmy.world
    12·
    13 天前

    So he’s full mask off at this point. I mean we all knew this, but now he’s saying the quiet part out loud.