2025-07-03 01:31 UTC
@anildash@me.dm
Having grown up in a society where parties speak of themselves as representatives of classes, economic interests, and/or provinces, or as big tents, it's really strange to listen such clear and up-front cadre partyism.
In my youth I studied marketing (a regret), and the way video spoke seemed to be closer to market campaign trying to find a way to sell a new sodapop on a saturated market.
I mean, it's not wrong, but shows how distant the politics there are from the people.
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@Caveman1226@mastodon.social 2025-07-03 02:48
@iju@mastodon.social @anildash@me.dm "its not wrong..." Yes it is. The general public is tired of it. Part of Trump's appeal in 2016 was the way he spoke from outside the system. Unfotunately, he also used strong Us vs. Them language, breeding a whole new type of tribalism that's even worse than party loyalty. Democrats need to create the same type of out-of-party appeal, but do it in a way that attracts an actual majority. I fear Mamdani has labeled himself in a way that leaves too much room for tweetsploitation.