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The voters deserve a lot of blame here.
You can lead a horse to water....
Any ADULT can easily see that politicians are going to be imperfect, and no single candidate is going to align 100% with your stance. Demanding that they do, or else you'll vote for literally the worst possible option, or sit out, or vote a "protest" vote, all so that someone, somewhere will "learn" something is just fucking childish and stupid. And this will be continue to be true no matter how many times the Tone Police show up to admonish people about blaming voters. Sorry, not sorry: I blame the voters.
Harris could have aligned with 99% of what I wanted, but that 1% was OK with genocide, and that should have been a red line for anyone.
So, the alternative was little d, because that's so much better?
The alternative in every instance is always no Democrats. We already have a right wing party, we don't need two.
There were two viable options only.
Nobody demanded that Harris align 100% with their stance; they demanded that she not be an absolute pile of shit of a candidate. That distinction matters.
she was actually pretty ok? The one thing that was bad about her was the israel stance, which is like maybe 5% of the voter base that ACTUALLY cares about that enough.
So first a lot more than 5% of the Democrat voter base cares about Gaza. I won't get into the weeds, but there.
No? She would've won at least two or three swing states if that was the case. Her economic policy (or lack thereof, more accurately) was horrible. She dedicated the final two months of her campaign almost exclusively to "Trump bad" rhetoric while not promising to do anything for her constituents. I mean this woman was asked what she'd do different from Biden economically and she said "nothing comes to mind". Status quo politics just won't cut it in this day and age.
i'm talking about the voter base that actually cares enough to influence their vote over it. I'm sure if you polled the public it;s like 90% or higher who care about it at all, like 40% support israel, 60% against israel, and like 5% of those is "fuck israel i hope it burns to the ground and that palestine re conglomerates into israel" type of people.
"her economic policy was bad" bro, did you see ANYTHING that trump said? Literally an irrelevant argument. Especially now.
I remember her talking about a lot of things she and walz were going to do, that was like a pretty big deal. Was their entire plan, not all of it was great, but it existed, unlike trump.
yeah and? Biden had pretty good economic policy? Aside from the whole covid thing, but you have no choice there, unless you want a global recession, more like a depression. Again, trumps economic policy has been an utter disaster in comparison.
https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling
Don't move the goalposts. Here's what you said:
We're talking about Harris on her own merit, not about Trump.
Like? Give me something specific she clearly said she would do for the working class and a link of her saying it in September or October.
He did well on the economic recovery front, but he or example didn't go after price gouging. His economic policies were a step in the right direction, not an end state to campaign on.
Again, that is literally not what we're talking about.
centrists think "second worst" means "good".
I agree, I'm also happy that people like Walz seem to want to give people a better option, making a protest vote even less appealing.
It means you never have to listen or change in any way, so of course you do.
LOL, I am a voter. Are you under the impression that I have any direct influence over the Democratic Party? 🤣
According to your comment, voters are to blame, not the infallible holy party. So good work electing trump. It's all your fault.
says the guy, responding to the guy who literally voted for that fucking party.
Defeated Democratic candidate: accepts responsibility in the lightest possible way
Liberal fanboy: Noooo, it's not your fault, it's the children who were wrong!
Yeah, us voters are children, and we need politicians to baby us
I didn't say Walz, Kamala, Biden or the Democratic Party in general have no blame.
The best I can do is fall for blatant Russian propaganda and then get mad when someone calls me out on it.
TRUE I LOVE TAKING UP ONE SIDED POSITIONS LIKE FUCK ISRAEL I HOPE EVERYONE IN THAT COUNTRY DIES A HORRIBLE AND PAINFUL DEATH
~~this is satire, hi hello, im doing political satire~~
It sure is convenient how all criticism comers from russians so you can ignore it.
Kind of like anyone that finds faults with other leftists is a "centrist", right?
Don't you have voters to blame for your party's decades of complete incompetence?
You'll have to try better than that comrade.
You're being mean to me! I hate you mean liberals! You're always picking on leftists who just want to let fascists become president
based and true, thank you.