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'Very troubling': Leader of 'Abandon Harris' movement now anxious about Trump appointees
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It's true tho...
Without a primary the Dems consistently move as far right as they can. Sometimes they overshoot and it lets a Republican in.
But no one wanted Kamala as president in 2020, and she moved further right for 2024 and got even less popular.
The next four years will suck. But at least we might have a say in the 2028 candidate.
Kamala would have been almost a decade of "same as Biden" but she was likely to keep moving to the right.
Like, I voted for Kamala. But I knew it wasn't going to matter because she had zero chance in my state. For it to go blue we need an 08 Obama type.
But I still held my nose.
I just don't understand why people want to blame those who couldn't hold their nose, instead of criticizing the unelected political machine who said Kamala was our only option despite being wildly unpopular.
People in the party and Biden's admin knew how bad he was, and how his age was effecting him. It's not an opinion anymore, even Chris Clizza admitted it after CNN fired him.
But the DNC still tried to shove him down America's throats till the last second, then replaced him with Kamala.
If anyone deserves blame for trump, it's those people. The ones who wasted 1.5 billon dollars on a campaign and couldn't beat the hands down worst president America has ever had.
We have FPTP for Presidential elections. We have two major parties who are in control. We have systems at state level that create and maintain gerrymandering and disfranchising certain demographics of voters. The only result was ever going to be Trump or Harris. It's the system. Everyone knows it's bad, and any changes will take effort and time, probably from the ground up. Some states have made progress but we have a long way to go.
So in the last election, there was only one way to prevent Trump, a known problem for everyone and every issue, from winning. And too many chose other routes for various reasons, and are now surprised that he won. The math and logistics of FPTP are all over the place, this shouldn't be a shock. Don't vote for one, the other will win. Period. The irony is that even though Harris might have just been Biden for another term, we can't be sure of that. Imagine a timeline where Harris barely wins, and changes many of the things being protested for. Those people would look back and think, wow, we almost missed this possibility because everyone was saying she'll be the same.
I mean, maybe and probably not. We won't ever know. We did know what we'd get with Trump though, and thanks to not enough countering his votes, we're getting even more. Yay.
You don't need to convince me...
Like I said:
I don't have the power to decide the general candidate, the DNC calls it before my state has a chance to vote.
You don't need to convince me Kamala would have been better than trump, I agree and trump will directly effect my life more than most Americans.
The important part is Kamala, her campaign, and the DNC couldn't convince enough people of that.
The reason, is because Kamala had unpopular policies and little to no charisma. Yelling at people that they have to vote for the lesser evil isn't a reliable way to win elections, and even when they do, it doesn't help voters as much as they need.
So the answer to both questions is the same:
And
We run progressives.
You can stomp your feet and say you don't want to. But if you want to do what's most likely to prevent a Republican president, do everything you can to help a progressive win the primary.
Even if it's not what you personally think is best, that's what wins elections.
So if stopping Republicans is all that matter, start voting progressive
I think that's giving non-voters too much credit. Time and again they were saying they didn't know what her policies were, not that they were bad policies, despite the fact that she was pretty clear in communicating them.
The charisma thing was different, she HAD charisma, but it was this fake, robotic, insincere charisma (see the cocoanut tree nonsense), and when she was called out on it, she reacted poorly.
Walz had 1,000,000x the genuine, sincere, charisma, but people don't vote for VP.