So? Democratic Lawmakers care about donors, not voters. If they were interested in winning elections as opposed to collecting rent they would have picked a different leader, not a "minority" leader who will keep them forever in the minority -- but it is worth trillions to donors to spoil the emergence of an actual left party in America.

The bulk of the Democrat party's policy is based on their leadership's cultural values more than a nihilist effort to grift. They are happy to sponsor funding for opera, client journalism and districts that host the finest private schools, after all.

The article's argument that they need to pivot to addressing technological unemployment neglects this lens. It strongly implies that the best way forward is to focus on the narrowing employment prospects of the upper class. Unlikely as it may seem, they are losing jobs to AI as well, just slightly slower.

I disagree with everything this article tries to say and just outright reject its framing. There is no risk.

The democrats didn't lose blue collar workers because they "failed to have a policy to deal with globalization and automation" Dems did have policy and they did try to address those issues. Republicans did nothing to address those issues. Blue collar workers dont care and actually dont listen to policy or Democrat campaign messaging.

So now we look at the same for AI, the author is delusional if they think Dems will be losing votes because they dont have a policy on AI. If they are writing for a publication like this they should do bare min research and go look at the dems policy on AI.

Thier policy was to entice hyperscalers into Gov datacenters to exert control over how these models could be trained and deployed. They wanted to use this leverage + regulation to ensure stronger guard rails,model bias and misuse addressed. They proposed a lot of new avenues of research to understand the impacts to the workforce before models were released into the wild. Basically still investing in the tech and the innovation but slowing the rollout to avoid destabilizing the job economy and having the shitshow we have today. It is good reasonable policy and its probably gotten a lot stronger as im reading this from their 2023 policy.

But none of it matters because people like this will write as if there is no policy and the dems have absolutely no plans to do anything regarding AI. Trump will have an AI policy that actively destroys people and _somehow_ voters will still choose republicans. Do you know why? Its because they are republicans, they are not democrats and never will be, they larp as undecided centrists but always vote republican. These people are worthless and dems should spend any effort trying to win them over.