The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election
The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election
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Looked at the dem votes for the last few elections and it looked consistent except for biden. Who somehow got way more than normal.
2008 69 mil 2012 65 mil 2016 65 mil 2020 81 mil 2024 66 mil
votes for Biden were "anything oh god anything but this."
So I guess we do this again in four years? Assuming elections are still a thing.
I think I'm just done. as many Democrats as Ive voted for and the best they can do is "Not as actively evil?" tired of it. Starting to think if we're going to hell on a bucket maybe I should be the one holding the handle.
The dems are not our party. I don't they ever will be in the foreseeable future. The issue is not making the dems win but stopping the GOP.
If elections still exist, and the Democratic Party still hasn't been deposed, yes. We'll likely have a mass of people voting to get rid of Trump's chaos for anyone else, and the Dems will receive a boost. Then, when they run the same milquetoast candidate 4 years later with nothing to offer but "better than the alternative," they'll fail again.
It's basically the same back and forth pendulum as before, but accelerated. Now incumbents can't even expect to receive all 8 years before the pendulum shifts.
You're probably right, but I hate that you're probably right. No fault of yours.
It's okay, I hate that I'm probably right too. Today has been a really shitty day for being right. I'm probably going to spend the rest of my life thinking about how this last decade went, and if there was anything more I could have done.
Yeah but it didn't carry. Guess everyone forgot Trump.
The Biden campaign offered something, notably student loan forgiveness, but both Clinton and Harris's campaigns relied on the dumbfuck Pied Piper strategy that they would offer nothing to the voters other than being not-Trump.
That's a dumb fucking strategy because there are fewer people that will vote Democrat as the lesser evil than will vote Republican just because Republican. They have to court people with policies they actually want.
And the absolute crazy thing is they tried this in 2016 and it failed, yet somehow had the balls to try again when it mattered more.
And the absolute crazy thing is they tried this in 2016 and it failed, yet somehow had the balls to try again when it mattered more.
They could blame 2016 on Hillary, not on the "I'm not him" strategy. Go figure that a 20+ year campaign to paint a woman as the literal devil would in fact cause problems for her at the ballot box, right? Who would have guessed except for anyone with a functional frontal cortex?
The Harris campaign sent BOTH Clintons out to "rally" voters. So Hillary went to Florida.
And Bill went to Michigan and spent his time browbeating the Muslim community there about the war in Gaza.
Who OK'd this? Were they born in the heart of a dying star, cause they must be the densest mofuckas on Earth.
Tbf, you would have to hate yourself a lot to look at trump and say "eh... i dont agree with him and he's likely to completely fuck the country and endanger millions of innocent lives.. but look! The democrats are only saying that they arent trump. I better not do a damn thing and hope for the best!"
I guess democrats are just are idiotic and short visioned as republicans. Perhaps they are in fact the same.
The Harris campaign put out an 80 page policy guidebook explaining what they were offering. Stop denying responsibility from the voters. A bunch of people wanted this and a bunch of others figured this was better than rallying around the one viable alternative, be it a form a protest or laziness. Voters are ultimately responsible for who we collectively elect.
The average US citizen is not going to sit down and parse through 80 pages of policy. Why the fuck didn't she promote it in interviews? Every speech and interview I have seen she just skirts around questions and gives vague answers, very frequently repeating herself almost verbatim. It really didn't inspire confidence. And I say this as someone who voted for her.
If she had a playbook, she ignored it and didn't talk about it. Despite people begging for policies.
Trump has one, played dumb and wants to do it. Despite it being evil.
I wonder who won?
Vanishingly few voters read white papers. If that stuff isn't messaged then it doesn't matter. And a convention of "joy" wasn't it.
Also the only white male in those years…
I had the same thought....