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There is a world in which it's not her fault or anyone else's fault. You can run a flawless campaign and lose for reasons beyond your control, or any other single stakeholder's control.
Do you think Harris is running a flawless campaign?
Goodness no.
Yeah, Picard Principle at play here. You can commit no mistakes and still lose. I can argue that there are a few things that Harris could do better. Americans are stupid and cruel as a whole...you tact too hard to the Left, you piss off the moderate voters and they stay home, vote Third Party, or worse, vote Trump, and if you tact too hard to the Right, you piss off liberal voters, and while they are less likely to vote Trump, you still lose their votes.
Man, we shouldn't even be having this conversation at all. Trump is a convicted felon. He should be in jail right now, getting ready for the next trials.
I'm amazed that anyone is still buying the "moderate voters" bullshit. Just try to picture an actual human being who's politics have left them scratching their heads between Harris and Trump. "If only Harris would do a little more for corporations. Oh well, I guess I'll stick with the racist orange insurrectionist."
It's not about moderate voters. If anything it's about the median voter, but that's a very different animal. The median voter in this country is wacky as fuck with political opinions that are all over the place. The one thing they almost all have in common is that they hate establishment politicians from both parties. Harris is trying to get their votes by being even more establishment, and it's going to be a disaster.
The one hope we have is the end of RvW. If that's woken up enough women voters, then we still can win. Republicans may have screwed themselves so badly that even establishment Democrats can beat them. Let's hope.
Yep
Oh for sure. The people most concerned with Trumps policies are the wealthy who think it might hurt their business.
Porn, import, healthcare industries. Lots of rich people who see they won't get fair treatment either for their wealth alone like they expect from the duopoly they have been benefitting from for decades.
Its why MAGA think its somehow great cause everyone will burn but somehow they will escape the fire because... God?
Its corruption and insanity everywhere you look.
The more I think about it, the more I realize that economics is a pseudoscience specifically designed to couch terrible actions of governments and corporations behind inevitability arguments.
After all, we cannot have prices rise.
So, we must continue with the sweatshops. We must continue with the factory farms. We must continue to drill baby drill. We must continue to build shoddy houses on flood plains...and on and on and on.
When people say they trust Trump more "with the economy", it's perhaps because they know he'll continue all of the above with a sloppy, sweaty grin and a shitty, little dance.
bro what the fuck is this thread, am i on fucking benzos what is happening
that's not how moderate voters work, you're ascribing 100s of years of politics onto the one weird 8 year period, the only moderate voting for trump is a republican. And that's only because they're stupid and don't do research.
Like to be clear, moderates are not swing voters, and swing voters are not moderates, there is no "scratching your head" here. This isn't a real scenario.
Just to expand upon this a bit, moderate dem voters are voting for kamala, moderate republicans could probably go either way, depends on how much they care about the parties or how much research they've done.
Independents will do as they have always done, voting weirdly for no particular reason.
this is completely true, republicans have basically fractured themselves in half, if not thirds, if trump gets out of the running, the party collapses, simple as that. Dems are in a massive position right now since the harris campaign is pushing for more moderate voters (the majority of the party, and independents as well as straggler moderates on the other side) and in some significant capacity, farther lefties who would literally rather vote for anyone other than trump.
How are we defining 'flawless', exactly?
All else aside - yea, I actually kinda agree with this, though I get the distinct impression not in the way you mean it.
edit - what happens if it's the undecided vote that causes harris to lose, not Stein?
Then she should have messaged better on Israel. On that particular item I also feel like Netanyahu is on a timeline. I'm not sure he cares about the election though. More like he's trying to get us pulled into a conflict with Iran before January because Biden can't stand up to him. If he thinks Biden is just locked by the election then he'll try to do it this month. Harris' messaging doesn't really take that into account in my opinion.
I'd much rather her do more than message better, but i'd take clear messaging over whatever the fuck we've been getting.
She's trying to stay neutral. It's not working.
There's no such thing as neutral - either we're supporting Israel through their genocide or we're not.
Putting on my objective hat for a minute, pro Israel voters think the same way. There's not really a neutral block of voters on this issue.
There is no candidate who can win this race that won't keep writing blank checks for Israel. If anything, Netanyahu wants Trump to win. He is enraged by even the minimal pushback he gets from the Biden administration.
There's a chance Harris is more like Obama and reigns in everything but iron dome reloads, while actually holding them responsible for settler violence. If your standard is completely disengage from Israel then yeah we aren't there yet politically. Although shooting at the UN might just fucking do it.
That's sure not what she's running on.
She's trying to stay neutral, Israel has a right to exist, there must be an immediate cease-fire, etc. This in contrast to Biden parroting the IDF's PR. She is clearly not as pro Israel as Biden.
Countries have no right to exist. They exist because they can. An apartheid ethnostate certainly has no right to exist or right to our support. If Israel has a right to exist, what about Palestine?
I agree with you. I'm just laying out why Harris might be better for Palestinians than Biden.
She...still loses? I don't understand your question
I'm asking who you'll decide to blame, since that seems to be the focus.
If you're unconcerned with blame then maybe there's no disagreement here.
Undecided voters are imo always a contemptible lot, but no more this election than any other.
Maybe read this a few times yourself and see if you can spot the problem on your own.
If someone is stupid enough that they need to be flattered into no longer doing stupid things, that makes them all the more contemptible in my eyes.
Jesus christ, is that what politics are to you? Flattery or contempt?
Anyone who's still undecided at this point likely needs one or both.
Lmao good luck then