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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

The message was loud and clear: America writ large is not ready for anything less than a straight, white, male president. Its time to stop being delusional, Obama was a fluke, and not going to be repeated. You might not like hearing it, but its the reality on the ground, don't take it from me.

In retrospect, I think Biden could have shat himself on live TV while asleep at the podium and probably have still gotten elected, the bar was so, so low. Kamala basically ran a prefect campaign, its just not what America wants.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 50 minutes ago

Yeah that could be true, or it might also be true that people don't like corporate Democrats. Or maybe other issues are important. Maybe Harris was weak on Palestine. Maybe it mattered that the old man took so long to get himself out of the race. Maybe the fact that felons can't vote played a role. Maybe the electoral college was a factor.

Wait a second, we can go on and on and come up with all of these reasons that you don't think matter at all, but everyone else knows they do.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Obama was a once in many generation politician, he had charisma and appeal no democrat president ever had. Democrats better field a white straight male from now on if they want to win, forget women president for 3-4 decades now. The kind of misogyny in america is crazy, I am from India, a third world country and even we had a female Prime Minister in our 75 year of independent history, and she was very much respected and one of the most popular. America in its 250 year of history had none, thats just crazy for a so called superpower

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This post proves Bernie Sanders right about at least one person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

STOP WITH FUCKING BERNIE. HES A MAN WAITING FOR DEATH. wake up and work for it with new people. Every comment for Bernie at this point is a vote against a future left of the GOP

Edit: or am I wrong, is someone going to vote for an 87 year old man who will be 88 when he starts and 92 when he finishes? Fuck

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[–] merc 20 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The guy won the popular vote. The people who sat the election out would probably have broken for Trump too.

The problem here isn't voter turnout, it's voter preference for a fascist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 49 minutes ago

That's just not true. You have no idea what the people who stayed home would have done if they were forced to vote. You have no idea how the campaign would have turned out if Harris had tried to win the popular vote.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Maybe if the democratic party wasn't complete shit they would have more appeal.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Actually, the problem appears to be exactly voter turn out. With a healthy heaping of Neo-Liberal rot in the Democratic Party.

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