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[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

How'd that work out with Kamala Harris? People "challenged" her on all kinds of walk-backs, bad statements, insinuations, and attempts to thread the needle on the Israel issue. Did that unseat anybody from their place of power? Did it make anything better? Or did it make it horrifyingly worse than the genocide that was already in progress?

Perhaps it resulted in the success of campaigns like Mamdani’s and Platner’s? Perhaps it showed that the people will no longer take guff from the Democratic Party and they need to at least try to refine their image?

I don’t know I’m not a political analyst but I can say that I was radicalized through the resistance to Harris and that my ideology was changed for the better. I’m not an idiot that throws my vote away — I still voted for Harris — but I was not happy about it solely due to people’s outspoken opposition. Had it not been for them, I’d probably still be gobbling up liberal talking points.