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Mark my words: they will put Kamala 2.0. or Gavin in the race for president instead of AOC or any other progressive.
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It's no use. Americans would much rather place blame on a candidate, one that was INFINITELY better than the other, than accept responsibility as an electorate for failing.
Harris was perfectly fine. A successful prosecutor with a doctorate in law. She would have continued a progressive agenda. She would have maintained economic stability. I'm sure it wouldn't have been as progressive as many would like, but certainly better than our current state of affairs with a president who shits all over our Constitution and is tanking our economy 3 months in.
The bottom line is the American electorate failed an open book test. Too many fools who chose to become single issue voters. Too many fools who thought it would be wise to vote for a 3rd party in a presidential election, despite having literally ZERO chance of winning. Too many fools who abdicated their responsibility as citizens in a democracy because they weren't pleased with their options. This was one of, if not the easiest, election we'll ever have in our lives. And we failed. Because we aren't a very intelligent society.
She ran hard to the right, abandoning all of her previously stated progressive beliefs. She would have continued the shitty economy that Americans were upset with. She said she wouldn't do anything different than a highly unpopular president.
Of course Americans blame the candidate, as they should. Her entire job was to get elected, opposing one of the least popular presidents we've ever had, and she lost. It should have been a slam dunk for her, but she gave all of that up, for money and genocide.
I think you and I have a different definition of "hard right". If you think Harris was "hard right", what would you consider our current situation?
I think you and I have a different definition of "shitty economy". If you thought we had a "shitty economy" under Biden, what would you consider our current situation?
You can listen to dumbasses who thought Biden was some awful president, whose qualifications for believing so are their feelings, or you can do your homework and find out that he was actually a progressive and legislatively successful president who passed some really beneficial bills for the American people.
Have you spoken to an average American? They don't know jack shit about politics. They don't keep up with legislation. They don't pay attention to statistics. And you're telling me that American's failure to pay attention, like responsible citizens in a democracy, is a single candidate's fault? That because she may not have run the best campaign possible that it isn't American's fault for allowing an already failed felon rapist traitor to be our leader...again?
Our society is a reflection of our electorate. It sucks because our electorate is largely idiotic. Not because one candidate didn't run a perfect campaign against a felon rapist.
I would call our current situaion Extra Hard Right. Yeah, Trump is more right-wing than Harris, but lets not pretend that she was anything but right-wing. She campaigned on "Genocide is good, and we should keep bombing children, and I love my guns", then campaigned with the Cheneys. That seems pretty hard right to me.
I would consider it shittier than Biden's economy. Just because Trump's economy is worse, doesn't mean Biden's wasn't shitty.
I did do my homework. I saw him bomb the shit out of innocent people, including children. I saw him back a genocide. I saw him screw over the rail-workers, bail out rich corporations, back down on the minimum wage, drag his feet on the lowest of student-debt fixes, and cut the highly popular Covid Relief programs. Did he do some good things that I liked? Sure. But those were crumbs compared to all of the awful stuff that he did.
Of course Americans don't know shit about politics or statistics or legislation. That's how politics works. But Americans know that they are getting screwed, and they saw Biden in office while they were getting screwed. Does that make Trump a better candidate? No, obviously not, but Americans were mad, and saw Harris say that she didn't think she'd have changed anything that Biden had done. Not a smart move when Biden was so unpopular.
No, I'm telling you that it's the single candidate's fault that she lost the election. She could have run a campaign that addressed the voter's concerns, but instead she ran a campaign that addressed the concerns of the rich, and the concerns of the right-wing. And "not run the best campaign possible" is a far cry from what I saw. I saw her run an absolutely terrible campaign.
I do blame the people who voted for Trump. They are awful people and I consider them quite stupid. But lets not let Harris or the rest of the Democrats off the hook for their own failures.
The Democrats are still in "Blame anyone, as long as we don't have to introspect" mode right now, and it shows. Maybe next time they should try listening to the voters if they want to win the majority of them over.