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Basic LA

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8. We should be the party of Employees.

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Wed Nov 22, 2023, 02:45 PM

Nov 2023

No one identifies themselves as Workers or Labor or Proletariat. We're Employees (also self Employed) and need a party that represents us by name. That's how we get the big numbers behind us. Banish those antiquated terms so the vast majority can identify with us and know which side their bread is buttered. Employees, working stiffs, clock punchers. Let's get all Johnny Paycheck up in here.

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What can we do beside watching the train wreck coming straight at us in slow motion? [View all] skip fox Nov 2023 OP

Other people have survived a fascist regime. Voltaire2 Nov 2023 #1

How about we focus on defeating fascism before it takes power? Elessar Zappa Nov 2023 #14

I'm not giving up, but I am also not putting blinders on. Voltaire2 Nov 2023 #16

Agreed. Elessar Zappa Nov 2023 #20

I wanted to ask DUers to develop an 'elevator speech' The Blue Flower Nov 2023 #2

That's a good idea! yardwork Nov 2023 #7

If he/she has relatives dependent on expensive medications, remind Vogon_Glory Nov 2023 #9

If your audience has relatives dependent on expensive Vogon_Glory Nov 2023 #10

I can't think of a single lift ride that takes that long ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 #13

I take it an "elevator speech" is one that doesn't necessarily mean one to be literarily delivered skip fox Nov 2023 #18

Great idea! But since I live in Trump country, mine skip fox Nov 2023 #17

The Following Aepps22 Nov 2023 #3

It's time to start working against the very legitimacy of the Republican Party ck4829 Nov 2023 #4

A republic, if you can keep it Vogon_Glory Nov 2023 #5

So what is the alternative if the representative republic cannot be preserved? roamer65 Nov 2023 #15

My election priorities are: pwb Nov 2023 #6

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 former9thward Nov 2023 #22

We should be the party of Employees. Basic LA Nov 2023 #8

Marches are a waste of time ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 #11

Get clips of his worst speeches. qwlauren35 Nov 2023 #12

What's depressing is how you can't even tell most people about the danger we face... Silent3 Nov 2023 #19

I'm concentrating on the mother of all train wrecks. Climate change. Kaleva Nov 2023 #21

It's not up to us to stop Trump... yet liberalmediaaddict Nov 2023 #23