Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?

yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Don’t underestimate the pissed off poor. The Dems kept telling them that things weren’t so bad while the Reps said they’d change things.

  The changes will of course be worse, but if things are clearly shit, and someone keeps telling you that it’s not that bad, you start to despise those people even if they’re right.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t underestimate the pissed off poor. The Dems kept telling them that things weren’t so bad while the Reps said they’d change things.

    Okay, but those aren’t the single-issue Gaza voters OP was asking about.

    Frankly, they should’ve been what OP was asking about though, because they were a way bigger factor (and always are, in every election, despite the Democrats abject refusal to acknowledge it).

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    • yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The big group of voters that the Democrats didn’t see coming, were the ton of racists and misogynistic assholes (mostly white but latino men also)

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Do you have any examples of Dems telling people things werent bad? The closest things I can think of is dems saying we know things are bad but we are working on them and they are getting better. It feels like a republican talking point that dems think things are good.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “Bidenomics” and “Economy is doing great” and anything and everything involving the word “GDP”

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Bidenomics is a right wing attack phrase and I’ve never heard Biden say the economy is doing great. So not sure what your point here was.

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• Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Sure, Russian bots. But Hasbara likely played a significant role too.

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  also privileged people who think that a Trump presidency won’t affect them

  I’m a privileged person who probably won’t be directly affected by another Trump presidency. Probably. Hopefully.

  But anybody who genuinely holds that opinion, and doesn’t care what happens to everybody else, may as well just be a full-on trumper.

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