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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It’s simple, and history has borne this out many many times.

In a bad economy, no one cares about your politics if you’re the candidate of change. There’s a reason why Harris spent two months repeating memes instead of defending Biden’s policies, because it’s impossible to defend the fact that you had four years to rule and there are more people working 2-3 jobs just to survive.

They knew they needed to appeal to workers. Instead, they spent most of the campaign repeating this meaningless platitude about joy to people who are being worked to death.

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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Also, there were plenty of people who were never going to vote for a woman, no matter what.

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- ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Plenty of people will also never vote for a black man, but that worked spectacularly for the Democrats the first time.
  
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- stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Don’t forget immigrants who hate immigrants.
  
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- Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Then maybe don’t force a woman onto the ballot in “the most important election of our lifetime”. I’m all for progress, but you don’t win elections by forcing ideals upon people who won’t have them, and if this was truly the most important election of our lifetime, then the Democrats should have fielded their most appealing candidate.
  
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  - the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah if the DNC really gave as much credence to the vote power of racism and misogyny as they do after election losses, then why would they deliberately step on that landmine by selecting kamala only 8 years after HRC? It’s not like we think idealistic dreamers run the DNC right? That’s silly
    
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- Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  If that’s why Kamala lost, then explain why Tammy Baldwin is winning Wisconsin and Elissa Slotkin is winning in Michigan.
  
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kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

In a bad economy, no one cares about your politics

That’s no excuse for electing someone whose stated policies and politics will fuck the economy even further and faster.

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- jdnewmil@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Sure it is, if you don’t understand economics, which few Merkins do. The evidence is right in front of us.
  
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