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I feel like this is a failure on the democrat side, beating donald should be trivial.
In part, sure. But it's also a failure of the voting public - primarily by not showing up to vote. The historic trend of low voter turnout got us to where we are today since it has enabled a minoritarian party with interests contrary to the vast majority of their constituents to win elections and shape the political landscape in ways that favor them.
It's also a systemic failure since the US makes voting about as difficult as they can - but, again, that is mainly the fault of Republicans who have crusaded for years to repress the votes of minorities, women, and basically anyone who isn't old and white.
It's easy to blame the dems because they should have defended better, backed more pro-worker policies, etc. But if all eligible voters voted, basically no Republicans would ever win elections in this country. Maybe then we could have some actual progress attacking dems from the left.
Repeal of the fainess doctrine has also had a major impact.
people who have voted blue entire life & even volunteered for obama have began to hate dnc since 2016 as it has become a front for superpacs rather than party of progressive policies and genuine leaders. harris biden just come of as too phony when they speak and then you look at their term and feel disgusted for getting scammed by them. no wonder the voter turnout is low when you see them all smug and cheerful launching games and doing comedy after ignoring you for four years.
All reasonable arguments not to vote for Harris. But no arguments whatsoever to vote for Trump.
And unless the archaic and infuriatingly flawed election system is fixed, you've got a civic duty to pick the lesser of two evils.
Most people in here will never admit that. They basically love the status quo, even though it has produced Trumpism. They don't understand how anyone could be dissatisfied with the status quo, so they think we just need to get past this election and everything will be nice and boring again. What they refuse to see is that when people are unhappy with the status quo, you win by offering them other options. Fascism is an option, and strong socialist policies are another.
We blame them because we know the republicans, whose fault this obviously is, are a lost cause. The idea of them being open to being normal or cool just doesn't even occur to us. Which only makes it even more their fault.