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Weird how you guys always focus on the ladybits as the unifying factor between Clinton and Harris losing and not their shitty campaigns to the center and inability to have a single authentic moment.
It's a convenient excuse that means the establishment, with its 20% approval rate and record of abject failures both electorally and in countering Republican messaging, doesn't need to change a single thing that might upset the donor class that has caused them to inexplicably cling to positions 70+% of the party do not hold.
No one wants what the gerontocracy is selling. We already can't afford housing and will never have any sort of financial stability because our parents (I'm Gen X) decided they should get all the money.
And you want me to vote for a septuagenarian? Fuck off. Go find a nice porch with a rocking chair from all your lobbyist dollars.
Yeah well fuckin pardon me for looking at similarities between what’s worked lately and what hasn’t so we can get out from under fascism as quick as fucking possible.
Jesus Christ if we keep going after each other we’ve got a snowball’s chance in hell at pulling it off.
YOU are the one causing the division! JFC, dropping in, saying "no women" and then complaining about division is just incredible.
The "they're just sexist, that was the problem" isn't just some random observation from people trying to just figure out what works. It's an intentional campaign to scapegoat women for losses caused by the political class who keep trying to run the same campaign and failing.
They're not coming with hyper-cautious analyses saying "no women, no abandoning the base, no campaigning with Republicans, no timid neoliberal policies". They'd still be wrong, but at least that would seem like a legit attempt by a simple mind to avoid anything that might possibly be a weakness. Instead they just stop with the first. They're looking for a scapegoat, because all those other factors were getting pretty unpopular in the party and they desperately needed some other explanation.
Them being women isn’t the problem; the fact that clearly enough voters aren’t comfortable with it is. I’m sorry you can’t wrap your head around that.
Bless your heart!