[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by wittynickname

Nominating someone who "has a little Trumpism in him" is NOT going to fly with the people who got Biden in office. We really need to stop courting the fictitious 'on the fence' voters and play to an actual base. The base being the minority, female, educated, etc people who beat Trump the last time. No the Dems cannot run an AOC and I get that, but we absolutely do not need a conservative Democrat either. I live 50 miles from the Ohio border and I have no damn clue who Tim Ryan is, I can't see too many left-leaning Dems getting on board with him, and make no mistake, those are the people we need to bring into the fold. Those are the voters you need to mobilize. Those are the voters that saved Democrats in 2020.




You need to do both. Minimum wage is still $7.25. Gas in my county is currently running around $5.09/gal. Wages need to go up. Wages needed to go up 10 years ago, but we didn't do that, so now we need wages to be lifteddramatically.

Make the minimum wage $15 (at least) and tie it to inflation going forward. Create tax breaks and other assistance for small businesses to cover this increased cost. And then you can also work on controlling the costs of rent/food/energy/education, but you absolutely need to dramatically raise the minimum wage.

It is genuinely getting to a point where the average lower-middle class worker is having a hard time surviving.

Raising minimum wage to $15 will have the most damming effect on the “average lower middle class worker” though.