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[–] CasualPenguin@reddthat.com 4 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

What should they really learn? I'm sick of the blame being placed on decent people not doing enough.

How about we blame the pieces of crap that support Trump who has too many disgusting qualities to list.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 108 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We also want to congratulate our friends in the Republican party, they played a great game and we can’t wait to work with them more.

Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley is excited to see his colleagues at the DNC make the same mistakes over and over.

This is amazing.

“I saw how the DNC ignored voters, I saw how they talked down to people, and that just made my job easy. I go in and say ‘Democrats think you’re dumb, but Republicans think you’re a genius’ and these dopes eat it up like the slop they feed their pigs.

Holy fuck is this even satire anymore? I can literally see a GOP campaign official say that in private.

[–] iwndwyt@sh.itjust.works 35 points 22 hours ago

In private? I can see them saying it on TV and the rubes still voting for them since all they watch is Fox News and they'd never run it.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The funniest part of this is the idea that there will be an opposition party in anything but a token way after this.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 20 points 19 hours ago (37 children)
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[–] vordalack@lemm.ee 37 points 21 hours ago (18 children)

They ran Harris thinking she would win based on her demographics. The DNC needs to learn that not everyone wants a black/LGBTQ/woman/etc candidate that just runs on their race/gender/sexuality.

They want someone that's competent that will campaign on policies that will make their lives better. The DNC has moved so far away from the working class that the RNC, the party of wealthy creeps, has them.

[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They had no platform other than fear mongering about Trump.

The difference between Harris and Obama was that while Obama was biracial that wasn't the focus of his campaign, his platform was, and he articulated it well. That's the real lesson to take away from Obama's success at the polls not let's run a black person and hope we win.

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (7 children)

Obama also competed against a deep field of qualified candidates in 2008. He went into the general with momentum of a popular mandate and then won in a landslide.

He would of done nearly as good if he was a white man.

On the flip side, when the republicans lost with Romney in 2012 they did a whole lot of soul searching (rather than blaming the electorate and moving closer to the center to court mythical ‘moderates’ which is the ongoing failed strategy of the democrats), and in 2016 they had an extremely competitive primary where trump came out on top with a mandate as popular with the base as Obama in 2008.

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[–] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

running token candidates beholden to them is very shady but brilliant strategy by the superpacs :

if they loose: blame it on sexism, racism bigotry to divert the attention from reforms in dnc for progressive leadership. and even if they pretend to be sad about it, the megarich elites and donors get taxcuts and endless price gouging from republicans.

if they win: token candidate passes some token laws which gets either blocked in senate or so poorly implemented that they actually end up giving billions to megacorps for no visible benefit to people. case in point: https://www.atr.org/kamalas-broadband-bust-42-billion-996-days-zero-homes-connected/

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 12 points 18 hours ago

This is unironically true, unfortunately.

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