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- vordalack ( @vordalack@lemm.ee ) English5•1 hour ago
They ran Harris thinking she would win based on her demographics. The DNC needs to learn that not everyone wants a black/LGBTQ/woman/etc candidate that just runs on their race/gender/sexuality.
They want someone that’s competent that will campaign on policies that will make their lives better. The DNC has moved so far away from the working class that the RNC, the party of wealthy creeps, has them.
- NoneOfUrBusiness ( @NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ) 29•4 hours ago
We also want to congratulate our friends in the Republican party, they played a great game and we can’t wait to work with them more.
Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley is excited to see his colleagues at the DNC make the same mistakes over and over.
This is amazing.
“I saw how the DNC ignored voters, I saw how they talked down to people, and that just made my job easy. I go in and say ‘Democrats think you’re dumb, but Republicans think you’re a genius’ and these dopes eat it up like the slop they feed their pigs.
Holy fuck is this even satire anymore? I can literally see a GOP campaign official say that in private.
- TheReturnOfPEB ( @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ) English24•5 hours ago
Have they tried committing multiple felonies ? Are they even watching and learning ?
- Schmoo ( @Schmoo@slrpnk.net ) English74•8 hours ago
The reality is even worse. They’re going to “learn” all the wrong lessons. They will shift further to the right, like they always do.
- Pringles ( @Pringles@lemm.ee ) English2•2 hours ago
At this point you might as well start a third party.
- Draedron ( @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•4 hours ago
The only ones that need to learn are the vile pieces of shit that chose to throw their vote away or not even vote. A politician doesnt give them all they want so they sacrifice the planet. Lowest of the low. Same kind of trash as maga
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) English8•3 hours ago
Every single third party protest vote could have gone to Harris and she still would have heavily lost. She managed to even lose the damn popular vote by five million votes, despite Trump having a lower turnout than 2020.
This wasn’t because people voted third party, this was because at a time when incumbents have seen massive pushback across the globe from Covid inflation and Biden was unpopular across the board she ran as completely the same as Biden but even more Right on the border.
At a time when the politically disconnected working class families that make up the record trunout in 2020 were struggling with wage stagnation, erosion of Covid gains, and greedflation eroding their savings and pensions, four more years of the same but we’ll adopt even more Republican policies and look how many rich Republicans like us was never going to get the everperson off the damn couch.
More of the same is not a good platform for ‘progressives’ during economic hardship, even if it was out of their control and less hardship than most peer nations.
Even though Trump is a disaster for many of us, most people got though his first four years just fine, and don’t understand just how much damage he did or how much more he could do if the guardrails failed.
Getting the general public out to vote requires giving them something they want to vote for, and when the biggest thing you can point to doing or wanting to do more of is some clean energy related tax breaks that is a major problem.
Had the Dems impeached Clarence Thomas for his and his wife’s role in Jan 6, had Biden improved the immigration system like promised, had he provided free National Guard abortion clinics on federal land, had he made the FDA make puberty blockers and abortion medicine available by teleheath and mail, or indeed had any major victories in the last half of his term to show, we would not be here. Had they run AOC, Bernie, Waltz, or anyone at all who could articulate a platform beyond four more years of the same, we would not be here. Had Harris focused on how she could use left wing policy to fight the effects of late stage capitalism, we would not be here.
This election was an unforced error of the highest consequences, and one brought about by a political party that was so confident that until he dies of old age every politically disinterested Amarican would be so scared by the threat of Trump that they would maintain an unprecedented level of voter turnout without them having to actually do or promise anything.
- Draedron ( @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•2 hours ago
I blame third party AND non voters. They and MAGA are all the same kind of scum who sacrificed your democracy.
- ...m... ( @myrrh@ttrpg.network ) English5•1 hour ago
…i’m not sure that’s how one builds a coalition…
- Draedron ( @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•53 minutes ago
There wont be a coalition with fascists. You had the vote between fascism and no fascism. If you choose that you dont want to vote for either you support fascism.
- ...m... ( @myrrh@ttrpg.network ) English2•24 minutes ago
- stephen01king ( @stephen01king@lemmy.zip ) English2•37 minutes ago
Enjoy the unfettered fascism, then, since you refuse to even find allies to fight against it.
- Draedron ( @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•25 minutes ago
Luckily I dont live in the US. But I have family there so I think its terrible people who didnt vote ruin their lifes and future like that. Non voters are no allies. They chose fascism. They are the enemies and there wont be another free election thanks to them and all the Maga garbage who are both on the same level
- stephen01king ( @stephen01king@lemmy.zip ) English4•1 hour ago
Then, you’ll deal with this over and over until America becomes a completely fascist nation. That’ll teach those third party and non-voters. At least you’ll have your moral high ground, right?
- Draedron ( @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•54 minutes ago
America already will be a completely fascist nation thanks to the fascist enabling non voters
- stephen01king ( @stephen01king@lemmy.zip ) English3•38 minutes ago
Not yet, it’s not completely fascist yet, but with the way you’re acting, there’s not going to be any significant resistance towards the US becoming a completely fascist country since you’re more interested in blaming each other instead of learning from your mistakes and work together to be better. What a defeatist mindset you have.
- Draedron ( @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•27 minutes ago
It will be completely fascist in January. And its thanks to non voters. They deserve all that is coming.
- m4xie ( @m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English1•3 hours ago
Pokémon God save us!
- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) English90•11 hours ago
So angry this isn’t even satire.
- sp3tr4l ( @sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ) English16•10 hours ago
So far what I have learned about what Kamala has learned is:
It is now the darkest night in America.
But…
There are billions of stars you can only see at night!
…
You know, faint, distant glimmers from long, long ago, that you can squint at and imagine they form coherent, stable, meaningful structures… which are not, and never really were there at all.
…
I do not know if she was intentionally attempting to invert/reference Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’ and HW’s ‘Thousand points of light’, or if she somehow thought this was an original, meaningful metaphor.
Either would be pathetic and disgusting.
…
Anyway, quite literally that may have been how democracy in America died, to another speech of meaningless platitudes, ending with thunderous applause, congratulating that a failed struggle was worth it, because even though it failed, it played by the rules and was gracious in defeat.