We need to talk about the classism of #Moderate #liberals.

Oh, the moderate liberal. There is a profound lack of empathy amongst what we would call the mainstream of the #DemocraticParty.

So, here's the thing. You want everyone to have an #EV. Well, an #ElectricVehicle requires charging. That pretty much requires a garage.

What about #solar? Well, if you are renting, you can't install solar panels. Nor does the #landlord have any incentives to ever install them.

Banning #plastic bags? A tax on poor people who traditionally got multiple uses out of every single plastic grocery bag.

Time and time again you see the #Democratic party, often along with #MiddleClass and #UpperClass #leftists and #progressives argue in favor of policies without a hint of empathy for the lived day to day reality of people who are #poor, #InnerCity or #rural.

Can you really be surprised that #Newsom decided to attack #homeless encampments? In his worldview, homelessness is a defect of the system, not an inherent product of it.

Fewer roads, fewer cars. Sure, but it sounds frightening when you have to drive to a dockyard that's two miles from a transit station.

The reason that a lot of #poor people in the US view the #Democrats as traitors is because they have traditionally _been_ class traitors.

The loudest progressive voices are usually the most privileged voices. So, they just sound like more class traitors without a moment of reflection on the actual lives of actual working people.

@AeonCypher News flash: life is harder for poor people! Therefore, let's give up on all policies.
@ThisAccountKillsFascists Nice straw man. That’s not at all what the original poster said. What was said is that class consciousness needs to be part of policy making. (Also, I’ll add that a Dem pitfall here is policy targeting individual behavior rather than corporate behavior—systemic issues like climate change require systemic solutions, like forcing major industry to adapt. But most Dems won’t do that because donors.) @AeonCypher

@UndeadRed85 @AeonCypher The "arguments" made by the original poster against these policies are, frankly, idiotic, which shows why class consciousness needs to be applied through redistribution of money and economic power, not at the level of individual policies regulating climate, environment, or transportation.

I'm sorry, if you think that we shouldn't have policies encouraging solar power until that policy also solves inequality, you're going to be waiting until the destruction of the earth.

@UndeadRed85 @AeonCypher We can't have solar panels because poor people can't afford to install them! No shit?

@ThisAccountKillsFascists Clearly you’re upset about an argument no one here is having but you.

Have a nice day, “comrade”.

@UndeadRed85 The original poster literally called Democrats "class traitors" because they banned plastic bags.

@ThisAccountKillsFascists @UndeadRed85

That's not why they are class traitors.

@AeonCypher @UndeadRed85 Well then, you should probably write a lot more clearly and not throw around terms like class traitors so lightly. Especially when your implied proposals, such as they are, are completely impractical.

@ThisAccountKillsFascists @UndeadRed85

I made no implied proposals on this thread. Maybe, instead, you should spend more time responding to the actual text that someone puts down instead of what you would like to imagine the text says.

#Democrats are class traitors due to anti-union neoliberalism for 40 years after solidifying the support of the working class.

@AeonCypher @UndeadRed85 I did reply to the actual text. If you want to argue that the Democrats are class traitors due to anti-union neoliberalism, then maybe you should having fucking said that, rather than tying their class betrayal to a ban on plastic bags.

@ThisAccountKillsFascists @UndeadRed85

No, you didn't. You made up a bunch of positions not stated in the text.