I think I'll do some data Analysis on how much this community shits.on third parties, non voters, and Republicans relative to how much they advertise what's good about the Dems.
If you're a politically uninformed citizen: Please. Do not vote. It's your right and duty.
would someone like to explain to me why dem turnouts were SO FUCKING ASS this cycle?
Did you guys just like, forget to vote? What the fuck happened?
I’d wager a fuck ton of them moved far left and stayed home.
Did you not see the meme? It was obviously because of REPUBLICANS!!!!!
Those darned Republicans made you not vote!! It's always the REPUBLICANS!!!
I think there are 3 reasons.
The economy is ALWAYS, FUCKING ALWAYS, the driving force behind the general public's vote. The current American economy, when observed at a macro level, has been great under Biden's presidency. Inflation induced by COVID and Trump's first term policies has been declining, GDP is up, the trade balance is good, and interest rates are starting to come down. Americans aren't benefiting from this in their personal finances. The wealth gap is severe because of trickle down economics. The democrats are shit at communicating this or even having a plan for it. Instead the democrats campaigned that identity politics were as important as the economy. Just fucking stupid. We all know the democrats policy on minority rights and protections. Talk about the economy and how you'll make individuals wealthier.
Some exit polls asked what emotions voters felt when they voted. The bi-partisan answer was overwhelmingly anger. (I think it was a cnn poll and a smaller website poll.) Guess which candidate plays into that emotion and guess which ran on "good vibes and joy."
In 2020, Harris wasn't well liked and didn't primary well. She may have done her job well as VP, but the public didn't know about it. She and her campaign didn't even communicate what she was doing. When she was "anointed," that turned off many democrats. Most of the excitement came from relatively few. The relatively many democrats or people who could be persuaded to vote democrat were not motivated. At current count, Trump has lost about 6 million votes from 2020. Harris has about 14 million less votes than Biden in 2020.
TLDR The DNC are master fuckups
Yeah we know trump is awful, but in the end we could buy more stuff under trump than we can now and that's all we really care about so we voted for him anyway.
They are in for a rude awakening this time around. They are going to find They can't buy nearly as much
The dumbest most selfish motherfuckers on the planet.
America simply feels like they can "Sit this one out" if it means putting a woman in a position of authority over a man.
If Kamela was VP and Walz was the top of the ticket and nothing else changed....
Walz would have won in a landslide.
Its only been 24hrs and this post aged like milk.
Don't worry, the communists of Lemmy are already celebrating the Trump victory.
They were never leftists, or if they are, then they're extremely anti-American leftists who want to see the US burn, not improve.
Are you even federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear? Because they're not celebrating. You're like the Republicans who blame immigrants because you want an easy excuse to hide the fact the party is dogshit.
I am federated with the bear, but not grad. What's going on is thinly veiled celebrations. Plus never have I heard a single one of those people have a bad thing to say about Trump or conservatism.
I'm not too sure most of the people on Hexbear are leftists tbh, I reckon they're fans of authoritarianism more than anything. I even got banned for saying that voting third party (aka not voting against Trump) is pretty much voting for genocide. Of course, they don't see it that way - Biden and Harris are personally killing Palestinians and under Trump this would surely be stopped.
And thus, instead of fighting the actual enemy, the republicans, you're antagonising the people who are more reasonable. Next time you can do it like France and call leftist crazy extremists so you'll seem less hypocritical about it.
Been saying this the whole time. Libs were shaming and harassing undecided voters for weeks instead of acknowledging that the dems were running a god awful campaign and pivoting towards nazi policies.
What are you talking about?!?! The Dems ran a flawless campaign, it's all the voters who are wrong!!! Don't know they know what the Dems tell them is right is right?!? Don't you know you're fucking stupid if you have any qualms about not voting for Harris?!?
please explain to me in what world, not voting for dems who are "tending towards nazi ideology" compared to someone who openly espouses nazi ideology is somehow the better choice.
I fail to see how, maybe i'm too intelligent and smart, but to me it seems like a really fucking simple choice.
I'm not commenting on the ethics of voting for Harris. I'm commenting on the hordes of people on lemmy and other social networks who were actively insulting anyone who expressed uncertainty in voting for Kamala. Actively insulting people who want to be on your side but are finding it difficult to support someone who is part of an administration that is actively funding a genocide.
Those people, in my opinion, pushed voters away by completely ignoring their concerns and telling them they are fucking stupid if they don't vote democrat. It's a brain dead strategy and mirrors the democrats campaign strategy, which categorically failed.
When you run to the right, and the people who like right-wing policies already have a party giving them the policies they want, they're not gonna switch parties, and you're just going to alienate the parts of your base/coalition that are affected by those policies.
Campaigning primarily on being the lesser evil and maintaining status quo failed, you can tell people 1 choice is slightly better all you want but on election day we found out that you can't win that way. If the dem politicians actually want to win they'll try a different strategy next time
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