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I was gonna title this "And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice" and then write "Stuck inside of America with the fascism blues again" here, but I'm not sure if that comes off like gloating and that's honestly the last thing I want to do this morning.
Democrats are completely out of touch. them expecting voters putting other issues on top of them making ends meets and food on the table (like mocking Vance's egg prices ), all the while most polls showing the economy is the biggest concern with 38 % of all voters, is just simply delusional
And they have lost both the popular and electoral college vote. meaning the real problem here is them.
And don't get me started on the propaganda of Iowa's early voters polls showing a Kamala landslide just 2 days before election day. If you live in a left wing bubble and believe this shit, than this should be a hard smack back into reality.
So I guess people actually think Trump and Musk are going to help them with their egg prices?
Yes, you might find it stupid or illogical, but they (trump , elmo) are seen as smart and successful, and they lived under better circumstances in the last Trump term.
That's democracy, everyone has a say, whether their opinions or feelings are right or wrong. but instead of the democrats putting the work to meet these people they have chosen to belittle them. and that has cost them so far the Presidency and the Senate.
they lived under better circumstances in the last Trump term
I was disinfecting my groceries, and Trump was confiscating my PPE to send it somewhere else. I was getting Covid checks, which was nice, but it wasn't exactly the same as working. I couldn't leave the house for a while. I couldn't buy certain mechanical things without going on a 3-month wait list. I knew some people who died.
They think they lived under better circumstances in the last Trump term, because the media and people like you spreading a certain type of mental landscape and inviting them to inhabit it. But that's not actually what happened.
instead of the democrats putting the work to meet these people they have chosen to belittle them
If belittling the people could cost you support in America, Trump would be in prison right now.
Now if you ask whether the media told people that Democrats were belittling them, now that's a different story. That, to me, seems a lot more worth examining than it does to lecture the Democrats how important it is not to do some things they didn't do, that the media said they did.
Lol! Most people get their information from social media. Most people interact with others on social media.
Most Republicans have been called "racist, bigot, misogynist, shitty, worthless, non-human, "Nazis" who deserve to be cast out if not "removed permanently" from society!!!" on social media.
For no other reason than they had a differing opinion than the hive-mind did.
The media didn't have to tell me that liberals were belittling me.
Biden also called Trump supporters "garbage". Clinton called us "deplorable". And I have a funny suspicion that you don't disagree. We have been dehumanized. I have to try my hardest to make it clear that I am, in fact, NOT a fucking Nazi before I post something that I know will be considered "Nazi speak", just because it isn't blind alegence to the Democratic candidate.
So......yeah......you can't act like this is something the media implanted into our minds.
If you aren't further left than the Democratic Party, then you are in fact a Nazi.
"they lived under better circumstances in the last Trump term"
They lived under fucking Covid in the last Trump term, when everyone was confined to their homes while supply lines disintegrated and the cost of food more than doubled, while ashes from rampant forest fires rained down from a blood red sky.
I don't even care whether your attitude is, "Oh no, we fucked up," or you go with option B which is what you're saying. If you have to wonder whether you're gloating or not, then fuck you.
I'm not sure what your problem is. Is nobody allowed to point out the failures in the Democrat campaign?
So this proves we need to rebuild or create a true opposition party. Running as a moderate party just continously pushes America politics right. Those that wanted a fully different option just stay home on election day. This isn't a both sides argument, just facts. We can't keep failing in this way when the writing is on the wall. We need to change the leadership in the dems. They all need to go! Yes race and gender played a role but Trump is projected to get 6 million less votes this time around than last time. So that means the base for dems just didn't vote. Yes that's upsetting but trying to shame and meme them into voting will never work. Give people something to vote for, not just against. Republicans get it but using fear and promising a better life for their base. (even at the expense of others they at least give that to their base.)such a sad day in America and the only thing that'll save us is to come together as a community and create a party that represents that community.
Running as a moderate party just continously pushes America politics right.
100% this
In the UK the left-wing party, Labour, very drastically moved themselves to the centre, rebranding as New Labour.
Since then, the Conservatives have increasingly adopted far-right policies and everybody just accepts it as normal.
Swinging left wouldn't have worked either.
There is no high horse. There is no right path. Us Americans have the critical thinking skill of an ant. The left should have fought dirty with a full blown propaganda machine, populist lies, and blatant collusion if they wanted to win, simple as that.
It needs a leftist Trump.
What are Republican's gonna do... demonize democrats even more?
Swinging left wouldn’t have worked either.
It absolutely would have. Progressive policy is insanely popular and easy to campaign on by virtue of being designed to help everyone. Do you think Bernie had such high favorably ratings because they have a thing for 80 year old white dudes?
Tell people "healthcare will be free" or "We will cap rent and build housing that won't cost more than 3x local median income" and then people can't afford not to vote for you.
Biden could have cut off arms to Israel, and hundreds of thousands of students so politically activated they're willing to risk their degrees to protest would be doing everything in their power to keep Trump out.
Instead they sent the police to kick the shit out of those kids, at great expense to the colleges, and called them antisemitic.
I’m afraid exit polls say otherwise. Kamala’s economic policies were the most left wing we’ve seen in decades (a wealth tax?). If people cared about actual economic issues, such as inequality, they’d have elected her.
This election was lost because Latino men voted for Trump (for starters). We needed populism, not progressivism, to appeal to the small minded American voter. Don’t you see that? Most American men are misogynistic, racist psychos. And they’re unhappy. You appeal to them with populism full stop.
They don't need to lie, they just need to get better at being direct and stip pulling punches or taking the high road to avoid offending moderates or whatever their stupid logic is.
Instead of cozying up to Cheney, just call Trump a felon constantly, remind people about how he put migrants in cages and is now using durect nazi rhetoric against them. Those aren't lies, and they jind of half assed brought them up, but they need to actually lean in hard and constantly.
I can't believe the bullshit with the Cheneys. When a war criminal like Dick Cheney endorses you, you disavow them.
Harris even got endorsed by Richard Spencer, who's a white nationalist, and she didn't say shit! What was she thinking? "I've got the neocon vote, now maybe I'll get the Nazi vote"?
I can’t believe the bullshit with the Cheneys. When a war criminal like Dick Cheney endorses you, you disavow them.
And lemmy's centrists were so goddamned happy that Cheney endorsed. They finally got the party to move so far to the right that they got Dick Cheney's endorsement. That was when they considered it a win and they didn't care about what happened after.
Democrats were too busy making sure progressive candidates were banned from participating in democracy.
ah yes, houthi loving, anti-american, antisemitic hasan who wants to flee to japan now. fuck him for brainwashing his audience into not voting. gotta wonder if he's been cashing russian checks too. unamerican traitor and useful idiot for the MAGA cult.
Your unconditional support for Zionism is what caused your own demise. Hasan warned you for it.
I'm not a Zionist dude. the far right in Israel is scary and genocide is wrong. I said houthis and terrorism is bad not innocent Palestinians. who, by the way, are even more doomed under trump. enjoy sleeping in the bed you made.
Yes resisting genocide is bad and anyone who advocates to stop it is a terrorist.
In your infinite racism you never bothered to check whether the guy on Hasan's stream was actually a Houthi. At least Republicans are honest about not caring for Palestinians.
you guys got what you wanted. watch what trump does closely and feel responsible. i don't feel bad for you. i give up. baseless call me racist while the world burns, it doesn't matter. get ready to get thrown into the american gulag for your speech, I'll see you there.
We warned you and you did not listen. Don't blame us for your garbage candidate.
why can't people see that we will never go left till we go far enough right.
Because "After Trump, Our Turn" doesn't seem to have much historical evidence of success.
yeah I feel like there is this myth of huge pushes left and right but its pretty much been between right and center.
Remember when everyone hated Cheney? Not sure why the Democrats thought they would help them win an election.
I was like uhh ok? And?
I figure that's probably one of the better reactions because in hindsight who the fuck cares what that warpig thinks or who it endorses?
I think their intention was to appeal to older Republicans who remember the bush years with rose tinted glasses and don't approve or the pivot that the GOP has done post-Obama.
Evidently they don't make up a significant amount of red voters when compared to the frothing fascists who would eagerly re-elect a rapist.
Democrats keep extending the olive branch out of naïvety only to have it used to smack them across their stupid fucking faces.
I mean the over-65s (turned 40 before bush was elected) leaned heavily to Harris. It was the Hitler youth that was a shocker.
Meanwhile the far left was cutting their own throats by handing the election to the fascists, thanks a lot.
Even if that were true, the Dems lost because of their strategy which was based on not giving anything to the left.
It didn't work for Hilary, what in the hell made you think it'd work for Harris?
Til a few hundred words by rando dude I've never heard of is an "autopsy".
...Is this somehow a big block of incomprehensible text to you, or are you somehow looking at a different image? It's a tweet.
is this the random andy streamer guy ? why should I give a shit about what he thinks
Because he's fucking right. Maybe the Democrats should start listening to people who are fucking right for once.
And win with people excited for the candidate? Never. Milquetoast saves money and being in opposition brings in even more.
Why try to codify Roe v. Wade when you can use it for funding?
Why would being in the opposition bring in money?