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In reply to the discussion: The Democrats have a working class problem - and it's by no means confined to working class whites. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Wow. That's...shocking. You apparently don't know that presidents usually achieve only on average about 71% of their intended goals, and of course few of those are achieved completely. How is it that you not only blame all our failures to achieve our goals on us alone but also have no idea of what we have achieved, and what we have prevented?
Here's the contents list for just part of our current platform:
RAISE INCOMES AND RESTORE ECONOMIC SECURITY FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS
Raising Workers Wages
Protecting Workers Fundamental Rights
Supporting Working Families
Helping More Workers Share in Near-Record Corporate Profits
Expanding Access to Affordable Housing and Homeownership
Protecting and Expanding Social Security
Ensuring a Secure and Dignified Retirement
Revitalizing Our Nations Postal Service
CREATE GOOD-PAYING JOBS
Building 21st Century Infrastructure
Fostering a Manufacturing Renaissance
Creating Good-Paying Clean Energy Jobs
Pursuing Our Innovation Agenda: Science, Research, Education, and Technology
Supporting Americas Small Businesses
Creating Jobs for Americas Young People
FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC FAIRNESS AND AGAINST INEQUALITY
Reining in Wall Street and Fixing our Financial System
Promoting Competition by Stopping Corporate Concentration
Making the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes
Promoting Trade That is Fair and Benefits American Workers
And, again, here's where you read in detail about each of those Democratic Party goals:
https://www.democrats.org/party-platform
Go. Open the file and blow open your mind!
Wow! And if you won't and don't believe in any of this, what are you doing?