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I might be wrong about this about I suspect that not only did support for Israel hurt them, the whole "kamala is for they/them" thing might have done a lot of damage and its quite possible the storm revealing the latter would kick up might be the main thing they fear.
Man if only they had like a primary or something, that coulda helped.
Though that might've meant Bernie would've run again and they don't like that idea one bit
There was a primary, the uncommitted vote got like 25% in Michigan where there is a significant Palestinian community. There was no path to victory for the democrats without MI. Harris/Biden chose to ignore this warning and continue funding the genocide.
That is why democrats lost. Not because of tankies.
I wish the left had all the power liberals believe “tankies” have.
I strongly doubt supporting they/them cost her the election. But what do I know, I only watched her cave into defeat before election night was even over.
flipfloping on universal healthcare messaging day after saying it, and running fucking republican endorsements at the DNC...really all you had to see. everything else was just shit-icing on the shit-cake
Lol universal healthcare. There's no chance in hell she would have been able to do that.
Why?
Republicans for one. Theyd never let it through both chambers. Then there's the dems in name only like fetterman that'll flip their vote. Just off the top of my head
The healthcare plan the US has now was inspired by a Republican healthcare plan, what is holding this back are self-defeatist "democrats" who believe fighting is "hopeless" for universal healthcare.
Nope, we can do this, healthcare is probably the most uniting and popular issue that people face in their lives.
Can you explain to me why some people like to both call those that voted for Kamala as being defeatist while at the same time refusing to vote for a candidate that is not 100% perfect but miles better than the opposition?
Genuinely curious.
I too like to day dream
Then get out of the way of the rest of us making it happen and stop spouting cynical nonsense that only serves to depress the desire of people to demand a better future.
I refuse to ignore the highly credible reports of election rigging, specifically outlier "bullet ballots" and other counties that don't mathematically add up to the reported figures. Between those reports, cybersecurity experts reporting failed security audits, and musk's involvement in companies that service the machines. It's highly possible, even likely, that the ballots were tampered with.
All being equal, it's no surprise why she would have lost, because she was a late, unlikable (I like her) candidate who rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Plus, the sexist dynamic that America just doesn't seem to want a female president (not the way I feel).
I almost thought that Kamala said that.
Idiots not voting hurt them.
I'm sure trump admitting they fixed the voting machines didn't help either.
It was the Democrat's strategy that resulted in low voter turnout. The votes were up for grabs, they ran away from them. It's not like the campaign was unaware of what messaging and policies were unpopular. They deliberately chose to ignore it. They chose to run to the right on policy and messaging. If they gave a shit about being an opposition to fascism, about actually winning, they would have heeded all the warning signs and run a different campaign. One that would galvanize their own base, one that would fracture the Republican base. Instead, they prioritized the interest of their capital donors, with zero consideration of the views of the constituents that they are supposed to represent.
::: spoiler The data on why the Democrats failed to win is clear
Here Are 34 Polls That Show A Ceasefire & Weapons Embargo Help Kamala Win
Kamala Would Have Won With A Weapons Embargo
Democrats' Working-Class Failures, Analysis Finds, Are 'Why Trump Beat Harris'
2024 Post-Election Report: A retrospective and longitudinal data analysis on why Trump beat Harris
How Trump and Harris Voters See America’s Role in the World
Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college
Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones
Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind
Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support
Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies
Tim Walz's Progressive Policies Popular With Republicans in Swing States
https://blueprint2024.com/polling/harris-poll-positive-message-8-8/
https://blueprint-research.com/polling/distance-biden-ads-message-test-10-15/
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“This was a preventable disaster,” Cook said, “but Harris and the Democratic Party leadership prioritized the agendas of corporate donors and gambled on a centrist path, while largely abandoning working-class, young, and progressive voters.”
We know what the autopsy is about, and why they won't release it.
Amazing that he admitted that, and not a single news agency picked up on it...but a bunch of Internet sleuths did! That doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory.
Sure centrist Karens like you kicked progressives in the face and ignored everything they wanted while calling them names, barely pretending to push back on the fasists, and committing war crimes, but progressives then just not showing up to beg for more of that is inexcusable! How dare they! They had better show up next time or you'll have some harsh words for them! and never forgive them!
/s
You know what pal, If Dem centrists cashing zionist paychecks refuse to learn from their mistakes, they can damn well watch the whole country not vote for them again, and the whole country continue to burn to the effing ground. I'm sick of their traitorous triangulating war criminal lite Dem plans. Do your effing job for once, centrists.
You calling me a centrist is more laughable than that bullshit comment you just spewed.
Bro you picked a piefed instance, which only exists as a protest to the left-wing politics that created lemmy. It's like an admission that actual left-wing politics scare you so badly you'd rather take (someone else's toys) and go home and barely act sociable towards those who made the basis of your toys.
lmfao seriously?
Yes the piefed project was created because some lemmy instances decided that those crazy marxists that invented and currently maintain lemmy were too extreme and 'unstable.'
This was around the time Bluesky brought a lot of liberal attention to both federation and the open source community, and along with that the audience who agreed with everything about reddit except the venture capitalists in charge of monetization joined lemmy, found out their 'We could've been at Brunch' level analysis is as left wing as a Hugo Boss coat, and quickly motivated the piefed team to hurry and develop and release their alternative.
As ridiculously pathetic as the lemmy.world admins are, and several of them are genocidal zionists, (some of them) at least stayed on the lemmy architecture. Piefed admins are even more right wing than that. Where the very notion of open source software makes them puke.
Not a single lemmy instance was involved in the development of Piefed.
And no-one in piefed objects to open-source software.
I guess if your happy with trump's policies and all the destruction in the ME then you can be happy you didn't vote for harris.
https://truthout.org/articles/top-biden-official-supports-trump-iran-attack-says-biden-may-have-done-the-same/
* may *
And probably not (if you read what they said).
But like I said, if you're happy with all Trump's policies and the way he governs then you'll be happy you didn't vote for Harris. That's ok. It's a democracy - you can be a Trump supporter if you want to be.
I like how you act like trump cultists using the same type of lame excuses. Similar to how some cultists claimed that by the end of civilization Trump meant and of the regime.
The biggest usa/israel military exercice ained at Iran was during Biden.
