She ran the perfect campaign!
Clearly racism and misogyny plays some role in it, but Harris/SomeGuyIForgot was short something like 6 million votes of Biden/Harris. This liberal talking point is one of the most frustrating because it is also exactly what trump says when shit is obviously not perfect.
Even 2012 Obama only lost ~4M votes compared to 2008 Obama. Dems are becoming more and more disillusioned as time goes on, which should be a good thing except in the Burgereich it means they get more fascist because one time a communist corrected them on twitter about some historical fact
I wanted to say Tim Cain but I know that’s wrong, but like…it’s not really wrong
It was more like 12 million lol. Also imo you’d expect all of the people who were too racist/misogynist to vote for Harris to flip to Trump (how many are going to go to Jill Stein?), and he only gained ~3 million, so that’s 9 million people who just stayed home.
Obviously this is cope about how a combination of support for genocide abroad and neoliberal policies at home likely cost them the election.
The initial returns were low, but Harris got 75 million on the final tally out of 152 million final votes vs 2020 when Biden got 81 million votes out of 155 million.
So there was a drop off but it’s not as a big as it was initially reported.
“We gave your boss a tax cut, what more do you want?”.
“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” -Chuck Schumer, July 2016
Trump won the primary but somehow there’s a limitless supply of moderate Republicans begging to be persuaded to vote for the Democrats… Marvelous things are happening in Chuck Schumer’s mind
The main hole in their plan is if they want to grab “moderate” republicans (I’ll just assume they mean “guy who religiously votes Republican but not for any articulable reasons.”) besides already being a flawed strategy when the pool of non-voters is so huge, is that they absolutely refuse to do anything positive for basically anyone who isn’t in the petit bourgeois (or obviously the mega rich capitalists).
Passing what amount to tax credits (as opposed to refunds or just “free”) which are heavily means tested… appeals to absolutely fucking no one. Most people don’t even understand how it works, for one, (by design, btw) and for those who do we can see “Oh, this is just a way to pretend you did something while not doing anything really and wrapping it all in multiple layers of lies and bullshit. And you wonder why everyone hates you?”
If they want people to think “Wow! That Chuck guy! He helped me!” you just give people a free fucking heat pump for their home. (Referring to that IRA bill). You don’t delay it for 3 fucking years either and let states putz around. You pass the bill, once it’s signed into law, you get shit going immediately. You don’t means test and act annoying with the money as if there is a shortage of fucking monopoly money. You just give people the shit. The guy in the suburbs who voted for Trump will remember “Well, Trump sure owned the libs, but Chuck and his party gave me a free fridge, water heater, heat pump…”
And obviously I’m using these examples to appeal to who Chuck wants to have vote for him. There’s a lot of other easy ways to get people to suck off the democrats until they die but all of it requires making an absolute minimum effort to increase people’s material conditions. The first party who bothers to do that instead of only focusing on sending another $8B to Israel will lock shit down forever. People celebrated those less-than-crumbs covid checks. Those checks which should’ve been per person, per month for like two years. But people still were so goddamn happy to get them. You’d think if a party gave half of an ounce of shit about winning… they’d just shove checks up everyone’s asses in Aug, Sept, Oct, and you vote in Nov. I guess ol’ Chucky just doesn’t like winning. He sure loves whining though.
i literally didn’t even know about the heat pump thing.
explains why my neighbors suddenly had theirs replaced and their hot water heater recently replaced as well
hmm maybe if we blame the working class some more they’ll come to their senses?
Holy mother of fuck do I hate the leadership of the democratic party.
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