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OTOH, been seeing lots of posts brought to you by the "democrats don't need to change, it's the voters who are wrong" gang.
And I personally think it’s astroturfing. The political parties spend tons of $ to influence opinion. Why wouldn’t they hire a bunch of bots to push their message in this space?
How can you lose an election so bad and think that it’s the voters who need to change? The tail does not wag the dog, democrats! I refuse to believe this is genuine sentiment. I live in a very liberal state and IRL conversation it’s fuck the democrats, a whole lot of people I work with were first time trump voters. BLUE STATE. One of the most liberal. Home to Bernie sanders!
The voters voted in Trump again so maybe there’s something there.
I mean, yeah, sure. There's a lot of fucking scumbag MAGA people. There's also a lot of people who pay almost no attention to politics at all and have a lot of problems.
Quick! In one sentence, summarize Kamala's campaign pitch. If you did it without mentioning Trump or Biden, I'm impressed, good job, I'm pretty interested in what you came up with. Now, do Trump. Probably something stupid like "you'll be winning so much" or whatever, right? If you knew nothing at all about politics, which one sounds better? For someone who isn't paying attention, maybe distrusts all politicians equally (for better or worse), probably Trump's. Of course, he's going to be fucking catastrophic for anyone who isn't a billionaire, but I'm just talking campaign pitches. The point is that the democrats need to take this opportunity to get their shit together and start working on a better pitch than "not Trump".
That’s what I get stuck on every time. Yeah, the democrats are useless and need to make big changes. They carry a lot of blame. But it’s not just people being fed up with their useless asses. The voters turned out in big numbers to vote FOR Trump. We expected the results to take a long time and be contentious again, but the morning after Election Day his victory was already clear.
It’s just… sad? Discouraging?
Extremely discouraging. I'm still incredulous that he got re-elected, and moreso that the democrats managed to fuck it up bad enough to lose to that fucking guy again
I'll be honest, I can't even really be mad at them. I can't think of anything they should have done differently.
I don't know what you do when your economic plan is countered by "mine is better, I'll give you details later", and "immigrants will eat your pets".
How about not trying to pretend that Biden was fine all through the primary right up until he went up on the debate stage and blew his legs off on national TV? I think that probably would have been a great start.
You're kidding, right?
Thing #1, in giant flashing marquee letters, would've been "pick an AG who would've actually gone after the traitorous coup leader instead of sitting on his ass for two years." Remember, Merrick Garland's original qualification for his SCOTUS nomination was being so conservative that even Mitch McConnell had no excuse to reject him. It should've been blatantly obvious to everyone that that made him the absolute wrong choice for AG.
Things #2 - infinity can basically be summarized as "all the stuff that would actually help the working class, which the Democrats' major corporate donors would never actually allow them to do."
Yup. If reality is subjective you can't really win an election without cornering the market on fear, which is the one thing Republicans are good at.
It's pathetic is what it is.
America gleefully RE-ELECTED an anti-democratic felon rapist who removed women's rights, incited an insurrection, illegally attempted to overturn an election, stole and refused to return classified documents, and fumbled the response to the greatest American crisis since WW2.
We're squarely in the "trash society" category now. The only thing we're the greatest at is having a lot of firepower.