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She's talking up Hillary's mantle, and that woman couldn't put a sock in it for 40 years, while also thinking she was clever for getting Don on the ballot, nevermind worshipping at the altar of Kissenger.
I hate to say it, but she's right. Trump was very clear about his plans. Anyone paying attention knew what was going to happen. Any sane person with a pulse would have won the election if the public wasn't so apathetic, ignorant, and/or misinformed.
if the public wasn't so apathetic, ignorant, and/or misinformed.
I don't think all of the apathy is inherent. Some of that's on her and the democratic party demoralizing their constituents. Yes, following game theory it is in their best interest to vote for the lesser evil and against the greater evil. I am politically active and I get that, so I voted.
Regardless, it still bothers me that a not insignificant portion of the Democratic party also knows this and takes advantage of this by coasting and doing the bare minimum. They seem more willing to spend their resources countering internal threats from progressives. It's not easy to stay motivated to support a party openly hostile to your own values.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of them would rather have a fascist opponent. Then voting comes down to, basically, vote for me because the alternative is fascism. How dare you question my policies (or lack thereof) or my soft stance our ally's obvious genocide? I'm your only hope. Vote for me or else.
It only works for so long, then apathy takes over.
The average American reads at a 7th grade reading level. You can bitch about it being the electorate's fault when you lose an election, but there have always been uneducated voters and there always will be. If you're a politician, you need to be able to reach all kinds of people; not just those with graduate degrees.
Democrats think doing politics is beneath them. They just need to be marginally better than Republicans and if they don't get elected then it's the voter's fault.
Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.
I'm so fucking tired of that spin.
It's like a restaurant owner who offered a crappy menu of poorly cooked food that nobody wanted in the first place blaming the restaurant's failure on the people who refused to eat there.
... Except the alternative was someone shitting on all of the food in the county.
Which is exactly why the Democrat establishment should've done a better job of appealing to voters.
It is specifically a Dim Sum restaurant, and the DNC rolled out the same shitty cold unwanted dim sum on the carts with a side of Liz Cheney to try and make it appetizing to Maga chuds.
Maga chuds don't go to dim sum restaurants and your actual patrons don't want cold shit and Liz Cheney. No wonder your restaurant gets voted last place in a two person race.
Maybe, just maybe, the Democrats will someday realize that political parties are supposed to stand for something other than “what are you gonna do, vote Republican?”
If people didn’t vote for you, it’s because you didn’t appeal to them. Don’t blame the voters for not liking the shitty options presented. Actually represent the people, not the donors and consultants, and you might get some traction.
Good to see this take without 100 down votes.
Dems offered zero leadership, just an anti-Trump.
Dems need an actual leader.
This is lemmy and you better blame the voters that were empathetic to Palestinians undergoing genocide or else. >:(
The person who never won a primary is complaining about low voter turnout in a general election. Now THAT’S fucking rich!
I'm convinced she was picked because DNC leadership is on Trump's payroll.
Never even came close to winning a primary but overnight she's "our gal," yeah fucking right.
It was so shameless too, the reddit botting must have been like half of her campaign funds. She had those idiots so gaslit they thought it was going to be a landslide in her favor.
We're cooked because Democrat leadership is just controlled opposition.
"People didn't want to vote for me" isn't the defence you think it is
Harris supporters will do anything but admit she was a bad candidate, and the reason she was a bad candidate was she ran a horrible campaign that was tone deaf and it's talking points were alien to the average working-class voter.
Democrats did this same idoitic crap in 2004, and in 2016. And act like Obama was some sort of political genius... he wasn't. He just gave speeches and ran a campaign that gave people something to give a shit about. Unlike Kerry, Clinton, and Harris. Biden lacked charisma, but nostalgia factor and his appeal to lifelong appeal working-class americans, which obama capitalized on.
Democrats need to stop being so stupid and arrogant. But it seems most of the party are entrenched out of touch idiots.
The democrats snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
It was their apathy that allowed Trump to go unpunished. It was their decision to run Biden again, breaking a promise and preventing democratic primaries to find the best candidate. It was their decision to muzzle Walz. It was Kamela's decision to nuzzle up to conservatives in hope of getting their votes. It was their call whether or not to investigate Trump and Elon for fixing the polls.
Trump is a horrible person and politician. However, his sheer aggressiveness comes off as more genuine than the fairweather triangulation that the Democratic leadership loves so much.
We need dedicated progressives, not halfhearted centrists. People who give a damn.
Centrists look at both sides of the mirror and find the middle ground between reality and a black void.
fucking book tour. of course.
I think all she had to do was denounce the Israeli genocide and let voters know she was going to stand up to Israel.
she's not wrong.
around 30% of Americans refused or failed to vote in the 2024 election. had they voted, we would probably be seeing Trump and his gaggle of shitbirds thrown in jail.
"oh Israel!" stfu. nobody actually believes that bullshit anymore. it's clearly been worse under Trump, fuckbrains.
How can she be this tone deaf? No one wants to hear from you, Kamala. Not the time. We're dealing with the fallout of your horrid campaign.
I regret my Kamala vote (moreso my faith in her leading up to the election) more every day, and I am in despair over this administration.
If you can't inspire people to vote for you the problem is you. I don't know why she thinks that's a good defense.
Kamala should have primaried. She was not who democrats wanted. We are sick to fucking death of democrats constantly sliding to the right to offer concessions. Start shutting shit down, throw tantrums, filibuster the fuck outta things. Its all MAGA understands.
Losers blame everything but themselves.
Only thing that came across from Kamala's campaign was that she being not Donald Trump is the only reason to vote for her.
We should run Mamdani in 2028. Those who know a little bit about presidential eligibility will cry that this can't be done. Those that know more about presidential eligibility will recognize that it's entirely possible for Mamdani to run for and serve as president.
I mean, this seems pretty cut and dry:
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Yeah let's report on Harris' book tour and not the pedopsycho oligarchs dismantling our nation.