• NeoToasty
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    I have spoken to two kinds of voters.

    First off, was my dad. He never ever voted in his life. This was his first year of voting and he went Harris. Simply because he knew enough of what she was about and liked her character.

    Meanwhile, the other party was my formerly adoptive mother. She voted Trump because “I just don’t like the other party”. That was her only reason. And that was just simply dishonest and uneducated.

    So, it is possible that someone is capable of just even doing the tiniest research can give you an idea of who to vote for.

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    No, SHE didn’t.

    Corporate News Fucked Up Again.

    For some reason all the headlines about this seem to be about what the DNC or the Harris campaign should have done.

    • @very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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      I don’t think it’s fair to just dump all the blame on corporate media. The news media landscape hasn’t meaningfully changed since Trump was first elected, but despite having 8 years to formulate a sound media strategy the DNC is still campaigning like it’s 2015.

      Like, sure, the Democrats are running with a handicap in the current media landscape, but that isn’t new, and it’s the responsibility of the DNC to figure out how to overcome that disadvantage — a task that the current leadership has proven itself woefully incompetent at.

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        The news media landscape hasn’t meaningfully changed since Trump was first elected

        I think that’s the heart of the issue. Yes, DNC should have figured out away around all corporate media outlets but that’s an enormous, unbelievable ask.

        Yes, the DNC should be mobile, and memeable, and . . . fuck, I dunno - on 3.14chan or whatever, but at the end of the day they still have to rely on the fucking Today Show and NBC Nightly News and the motherfucking New York Times to carry their message without shitting on it - which they absolutely will. never. do.

        The right has poured hundreds of billions into this since the mid-90s. The left has no fucking clue. Despite having all the academics and content creators telling them what to do. It’s time to put a fist in the face of corporate news. Sweet talking has gotten us a fascist dictator.

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          I mean… bernies doing it. Dude is like 80 and is absolutely idolised by the younger generation and regular middle and lower class people because he seems to actually practice what he preaches and is genuinely interested in what’s good for people. Most politicians to me just give the impression of seeking politics to enrich themselves and clasping onto power to avoid losing that even when their senile and completely incapable of fulfilling their role.

      • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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        Yeah but like, it’s a bit crazy that the right has: Fox News, OAN, NewsMax (or whatever it’s called), Joe Rogan Experience (gateway drug/sanewashing), Benny Shaps network, X, Truth Social, Prager U, Tim’s Pool, right wing radio, and lots of other smaller shops and they all seem to claim corporate media is the worst and they’re all here to tell you the truth.

        • @orclev@lemmy.world
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          Don’t forget Sinclair Broadcasting. They’re the local branch of the right wing propaganda machine.

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          Yes. Add to that that they have no ethics, and will say and do anything.

          People on the left tend to actually adhere to their moral and ethical framework, which immediately puts us at a massive disadvantage against the dirty cheaters.

        • They could start by shedding any hope of capturing those voters. I can tell you with 100% certainty, based on trump being a convicted felon, there is no attack that will flip them. You have to reach outside current demos and bring your message to them. If they can’t learn this obvious fact thats been lingering for 8 years (shoot someone on mainstreet) they are useless as a political power.

          Next is the message. Obviously it has to be about change. Where Harris again failed by clinging to bidens record. The DNC needed to drop current dogmas and level. They would have started by talking like a normal fucking human who doesnt have a scripted line and strategy for everything. Then they would lay out the facts. This is what ‘government can do’ and this is what ‘government can’t do’. This is what YOU the voters need to do to get governement to do what YOU want. Then address what they want! FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE. THEN LAY THEM WITH THE FUCKING PEOPLES ELBOW. “THE PEOPLE HAVE TO BLOW UP THE POLLS TO GET THE FREEDOM OF FINCIAL INDEPENDENCE, IF THERE ISNT COMPLETE HEDGEMONY IN ALL BRANCHES OF GOVERNEMNT THERE WILL NEVER BE MEANINGUFL CHANGE.”

          Promise fincaial independence, promise people will never get it if they don’t show. Then we either got as far as the line, “I own a gun” or the people show up. Either way, you ran an honest, noble campaign.

    • @mlg@lemmy.world
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      Poor soul thinks said corporate media somehow exists completely outside of the scope of the DNC as if the DNC itself isn’t just a convention for corporate donors to show up and throw in their demands in exchange for campaign funds and lobbying money.

      I mean I’m sure the headline NYT article about Clinton having a 91% chance of winning was totally some next level corporate funded psyop and not a one of the many thousands of advertisements paid for by the DNC. /s

      No, it’s totally the corporate media that’s after her and has absolutely nothing to do with the candidate that dropped the entire uncommitted movement worth of constituents for $100 mil in corporate AIPAC money. /s

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          In presidential elections, it supervises the national convention and, both independently and in coordination with the presidential candidate, raises funds, commissions polls, and coordinates campaign strategy.

          Again there is just no possible way the DNC is financially related to the very candidate it is promoting. Obviously, the Wikipedia editors are wrong /s

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            Again there is just no possible way the DNC is financially related to the very candidate it is promoting.

            Actually the Harris campaign gave money to the DNC (or some other fund) to help fund other candidates, not the other way around. That didn’t give the DNC the slightest bit of leverage over Harris. If anything it was the opposite. The suggestion that someone at the DNC ran the Harris campaign instead of Harris is ludicrous.

          • @Restaldt@lemmy.world
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            Mostly the anger at having to pick a slightly less lethal poison election after election

            The DNC went full mask off this year by not holding primaries. By campaining with the cheneys and pushing 10 year old GOP policies/talking points.

            All they will learn from this is losing elections still lets you amass a “warchest” of one billion dollars

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              Harris is not the DNC. The DNC is not a person. The DNC did not “campaign with they Cheneys”. The DNC did not “push 10 year old GOP politicies.” Nor did Harris, to my knowledge.

              The only job of the DNC was to hold primaries. And they did that. Biden dropped out after the primaries were over.

              All they will learn from this is losing elections still lets you amass a “warchest” of one billion dollars

              The DNC’s only main job is to hold primaries. It’s not up to them to “learn” anything. They always go with the choice of the voters. The only people who can learn anything from this is the voters. The DNC is not a person. It is an fluid organization controlled by the primary voters.

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              The last president – Obama – that the DNC really wasn’t at all involved with was still somehow not very progressive.

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                The DNC has equal “involvement” in every election, which is to hold primary elections so voters can choose a nominee. The nominees chosen by the voters all run their own campaigns.

    • @seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      This is what happens when you sell all of the major news outlets to billionaires - they publish pro billionaire propaganda

    • @Tinidril@midwest.social
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      Democrats ran another perfect losing campaign. Some people might say that losing makes a campaign definitionally imperfect, but that’s only sane people.

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          She lost to a carnival barker. Other than that, the campaign was perfect! Great news for the Democrats because they have the perfect formulae. (/s in case you missed it.)

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            It’s that kind of incisive political analyses that make all the “lolDemz” leftist commentary worthwhile. Thank you for your service. /s

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              Why the fuck would anyone respond to the comments you made here with any real analysis? If that’s what you wanted than you’re as tone deaf as Harris.

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    To be fair, inflation is better, but it’s also valid to question how it’s being calculated and if it really reflects how much money people can have at the end of the month.

  • @Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
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    Once again, they are only looking at the people who DID vote… Those people always vote, and clearly the proportion of blue “always voters” is dwindling compared to red “always voters”. Yes ignorant voters lean red, but it doesn’t matter. Stop pretending like there’s a huge swath of “swing” voters. There’s not. Trump got basically the same votes this time. This election came down to the 10 million Biden voters who stayed home for Kamala. That’s it. All the rest of this is nonsense bullshit propaganda to obscure the truth. Why didn’t they come out for Kamala??

    • Queen HawlSera
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      1. Because she’s a woman
      2. The DNC failed to remind people what happened under Trump (Which is how Trump got away with “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?”
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        Everybody who was voting age was old enough to remember the trauma of 2016-2020 without reminders. Yes the dems should leverage everything anyway, but even the non-politically-aware have it in working recent memory. We can take that out of the list of causes.

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        1. Less vocal on support for trans rights than Biden in his campaign and first days of presidency despite literal millions being poured into anti trans ads.
        2. Yes, the whole genocide thing, like talking about it or not, Michigan for example certainly lost a huge blue voting block just by the more predominantly Arab districts alone. Michigan, red. And nobody was thinking trump was the better option there, they just did not feel the need to participate
        3. They only mentioned how grave a threat a fascist who has openly talked about subverting democracy, and then were more than cordial when it came to a loss. The DNC didnt fail to mention, its that its not worth shit because trump is still a free man and our laws should have upheld those principles. You can remind people how presumeably bad it was, but it doesnt mean anything if youre not offering a clear better alternative while our system of laws is literally failing us.

        God forbid Biden were to have run again, it would’ve still been a landslide, and he aint a woman. Maybe old as shit, but there is still a lot more common issues people grew to not like so much about Biden, then Kamala said she wouldnt be any different from.

        I dump this comment because I personally believe reductive narrative will hurt our ability to effectively work together, and probably the biggest part the dems failed.

        • @SquatDingloid@lemmy.world
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          It’s not reductive to acknowledge that we have a sexism problem.

          When mostly white and hispanic men voted for Biden but not Harris then it’s hard to pretend like that has to do with the economy or some other shit.

          Biden and Harris have the exact same policies, white and hispanic men voted for Biden but stayed home for Harris, logically you have to accept it was about being a woman.

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            Have you seen a demographics poll of the 7 million Biden voters who stayed home? I’ve been looking. If you found one can you share it please? Thanks

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            I believe I conceded that some voters may have had sexism play a part, but being cynical and avoiding crtitique wont get the party anywhere. Its really easy to just say shit, but coming up with solutions is harder. So if its just sexism, I’d like to hear your 5 step plan to mend this qualm.

            Biden and Harris have the exact same policies

            Maybe that was part of the issue, when voters want change, how is that supposed to help?

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              Let’s be real if they had progressive policies they wouldn’t be the Democratic party anymore

              But if people actually gave a shit about policy then they would have voted for Bernie in 2016, and we all know how electable he was

              You can’t pretend that people suddenly care about policy because they never fucking have

              This was sexism plain and simple

              A bunch of man children got a small pp and stayed home when they realized that a woman may outrank them

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                Millions of people did vote for Bernie, and he absolutely would have won the general… Clinton and her minions rigged the primary. The right doesn’t care about policy, but the left, especially the moral “Bernie” left absolutely care about policy. The sexists who can’t bring themselves vote for a woman are right-wing voters and always have been. The idea that the left is filled with blatant sexists is delusional.

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                Okay and again, how does this solve anything? People dont have to care about policy to know they don’t want more of the same. I get why you’re frustrated, but you can’t think you know this reason when I don’t even fully, but at the very least try not to be reductionist? Because it actively sabotages any progress to constantly infight on demographic blame.

                I just noticed each of my notifications have been yours in order, I dont know if you want to prove your reasoning or are just here to argue, but I suggest you actually read about half of what Ive said if you genuinely care why reason lost this election.

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            Wrong about mostly everything. Sexism is a part of it, but way smaller than you think it is. Kamala is not popular at all, and the dems are a dying party in their unilateral support of Israel and genocide.

            Kamala had the worst speeches and the most disgusting conversations with people during Q&As. She was never going to win. She has no spine and doesn’t stand for anything, the biggest puppet we’ve ever seen.

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        I’m sorry, but the idea that 10 million people on the left chose not to vote for someone just because she’s a woman is ridiculous. People who think like that are Republicans and would never have voted blue no matter what.

        I’m pretty sure the DNCs entire strategy was making sure people knew they were better than Trump. But okay, I’ll give you that one of their failings was not leaning into all the horrible things Trump did or allowed.

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        To add to that, in 2020 we had almost universal mail voting that had been rolled back in most swing states by 2024. In addition, there were a lot of scary stories floating around about Trump supporters at the polls. Lastly, voter suppression efforts do suppress votes (e.g. removing people from voter rolls, closing polling places in blue districts, making voting worse).

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          Fun fact, the DNC started all of these things in 2016 when they did them all to Bernie and his supporters. The RNC simply learned from their playbook.

          But I can agree, some of the people who didn’t vote may have been influenced by it being harder to vote this time.

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        Sorry buddy, you don’t get to hand waive away yet another failure. This is on the democratic party.

        Time to make that change obama promised a reality. Can they rip their lips off their donors butthole? Doubtful

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      They only “came out” for Biden because of covid and because trump was in power during covid and people were angry about how he handled it and there were a lot of mail in ballots.

      Without the covid effect I really doubt Biden woulda won in 2020

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    Sounds like they are trying to shift blame, again. We knew exactly who she was and knew she can’t be trusted with our support.

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        You have to understand, the people who constantly attacked Harris before the election now have to figure out some way to make her just as bad as Trump, to excuse their own behavior. Is it disgusting? Yes. Is it reprehensible? Yes. Is it absolutely predictable as a means of trying to escape responsibility for the rancid shit hurricane that will be Trump Part 2? Yes.

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          Yeah I’ve been seeing the exact same thing, and I think it will be interesting to see them gradually unravel in the coming months.

          You can see that all of the astroturfing, bot accounts vanished after Election Day, and all of the useful idiots are left to try to fight the cognitive dissonance they’re feeling after seeing the immediate insanity of Trump since winning.

          Unfortunately, if they actually are progressives, they will likely have a much harder time ignoring the cognitive dissonance than conservatives (who seem to excel at that ability). They’re in for some real psychic pain when they witness Trump’s actions in Palestine.

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            “those leftist rubes not voting for my party, well jokes on them cause I just imagined the other guys doing worse”

            I’m not looking forward to Trump, but this is the path the Democrats paved by their own actions. Blaming the voters is not a real strategy for anything other than nursing bruised ego.

      • @EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml
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        And how are they polling these non-voters at exit polls if they did not vote? Odd dog. The story is blame shifting bullshit, what Democrats love doing whenever they can’t manage to run a decent candidate or election

      • @EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml
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        Who said anything about electing Trump? The only people that say, but Trump are the liberals that think you’ve only got two options. There’s a lot of us that did not vote for top of the ticket and voted downline, top of the ticket was garbage, regardless of which fascist you decided to support

        • We have a voting system that mathematically devolves into a two party system. If you think voting third party will change anything the way the system is set up right now, you’re naive.

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          There’s a lot of us that did not vote for top of the ticket and voted downline

          No, the republicans won all three branches so that’s a lie.

          I hope the democrats move hard right next election to target people who actually vote and don’t just sit it out.

        • You’re an idiot if you think that not voting for Harris means you didn’t implicitly vote for Trump.

          There were two viable candidates in this election, because that’s how the US election system works. A 3rd party will never win until the entire system changes. Full stop.

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            Is it really how that works? No way! Ive literally never heard anyone say that! Definitely not over and over in this thread or anything!

            Thanks internet stranger for solving the third party problem! Not all hero’s wear capes!

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            You know what makes for a viable candidate, people voting for them. Liberals claim to support a 3rd party but not until they are viable. They essentially want other people to do the work for them so they can hop on someone else’s bandwagon and claim this is what they always wanted

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        How are they analyzing the demographics of non voters at exit polls when non voters wouldn’t be exiting the polls to be questioned?

        • @kescusay@lemmy.world
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          Which non voters are you talking about? The article is about politically engaged voters and voters who don’t follow politics, both of which are voters.

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    lost the ones more easily duped by soundbites of lies.

    “I love the poorly educated!” -Trump, 2/2016

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      It’s too bad she didn’t offer any soundbites of truth. Her entire campaign was built around being inoffensive to everyone which meant saying nothing that might evoke meaning. Lies thrive in that environment.

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          I’m easily the most politically engaged person I know. If I wasn’t listening (though I was) then that’s a really bad sign. We need candidates that drive engagement.

          Kamala had a lot going in terms of technocratic improvements that actually would provide some value for voters, but there was nothing transformative, and there was no interesting narrative.

          The most interesting thing she did was campaign with Liz Cheney, so that’s what got the attention. She wanted to convince right leaning voters that she understood them, but instead communicated that she is just another neoliberal warmonger. It doesn’t matter that she might have threaded the needle perfectly in her rhetoric because she stepped into a narrative that said otherwise.

          • You taking heat for your previous statement is so typical of those giving any criticism of the DNC. You basically went outside and said it’s kinda chilly and someone came up and said, upset, “no! It’s cold.”

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    I’m politically engaged. She lost me and loads of others when she said shes a Zionist and supports destroying the environment.

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      How old are you? The idea that you’re not going to vote unless you agree with a candidate on 100% of issues seems pretty unrealistic.

      I have never in my life voted for a candidate that I completely agree with. And the ones I liked most tended not to do very well, because my opinions are not representative of the population at large.

      If you’re waiting until you can find a candidate who has zero positions you don’t like, you’ll be waiting until you’re dead. Good job participating in democracy!

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    They saw a woman was running for President and decided they didn’t care. It’s as simple as that. Sexism gave the election to Trump

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      We can point fingers at demographics, and certainly that may have been a part, but its reductive to say just sexism. If we accept any single reason, there will be no reason to improve our platforms.

      You’ve got Democratic leaning media blaming the dems for being too woke… and more than half the country just didn’t vote. We need a platform that argues in favor of worker and individual rights alike while not capitulating on either, because as soon as you do capitulate to the right, you lose support, plain and simple.

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          We cant split hairs on demographic turnout if overall turnout is way down from 2020, I mean we can make Latinos a scapegoat, but again we’re completely subverting critique that could actually help win an election.

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              The fact is those margins in the Hispanic community would barely make a dent on overall turnout? Hence, scapegoating.

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                If every white and hispanic man who voted for biden also voted for harris then she would have won

                Acknowledging reality is not scapegoating

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                  7,000,000 less votes than Biden has is beyond any single percent margin in minority populations. Even if… what are you going to do? Harp on said demographics foe making the wrong choice for 4 years? Self righteousness ain’t gonna solve the lost vote. Ask why things happen once in a while.

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        When the only voters who sat out were white and hispanic men then what would be the logical reason?

        Why didn’t women sit out this election at the same rates? Why not any other groups besides white and hispanic men?

        What other conclusions can you even draw for these specific groups that have masculinity issues than not voting for a woman?

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        These people are throwing as much shit at the wall desperately to find anything to blame other then the Democratic Party. Perhaps it is a coping mechanism because the democrats would rather cling to First-past-the-post voting with rigor mortis clenched hands then to have to actually compete for your vote.

        A trump presidency over breaking the two party system.

        Party over country.

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          I understand to the kneejerk reactions to critique of the dems, but ffs this should be easy to win and who else do you critique then? Actually bring some change to the table and people will perk up to it. They’ve just let the repubs define them instead of doing anything to even make a name for themselves. At this rate I don’t think we’ll ever get ranked choice, unfortunately. Won’t stop me from trying.

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      53% of white women voted for Trump. Your “America won’t vote for a woman” argument doesn’t hold water.

      Americans won’t vote for specific women, sure. Namely Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris. The fact that they are women is not why they lost so cataclysmically; they ran platforms that were deeply unengaging to Democrat and Independent voters. Worse, they tried to appeal to Republicans, which only underscored how out-of-touch and unprepared they were to hold the office. Moreover, neither of those specific women, nor the DNC that backed them seems to have learned anything from their continual failures, which, again, only deepens the divide among Democrats’ necessary coalitions.

      Their failures are a function of being bad at post-Obama politics, and bad at running for the highest office in the land. It’s not because they are women.

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    Honestly I thought it was really stupid to hear Trump going after “low propensity voters” as if Kamala wasn’t.

    To me, politically engaged people by nature will vote so why the fuck wouldn’t you be trying to reach those that don’t pay much attention? Like ffs if these people can’t be their own advocates how could we expect them to run the damn country… Very very stupid. :(

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      The problem is that ots much easier to get people enraged than it is to get them to show understanding. The reds only talk about hate, and that’s very hard to combat. It’s been their strategy my entire adult life, and I’m 51. It’s culture war propaganda.

      What we need are Podcaster and other influences to rail against billionaires and their crimes.

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    “Politically engaged” in completely disgusting politics is not a positive thing.

    The hegemonic narrative (eg. nbc) will never prevent this viewpoint.

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    Can’t forget when I overheard someone say, “when was Biden is not running for president” as Trumps was announced he was president elect…

    Democracy dies in ignorance

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    lost voters who don’t follow politics.

    This could imply that they started following politics and then decided not to vote democrat.