> Damn man, cutting off my leg seemed like a good idea at the time, but it turned out bad. But a while later, I wasn’t happy with my life, so I thought, what the hell, I’ll cut off the other one too, see what happens. That was bad too! So when my neighbor asked me if I want to burn my prosthetic legs as well, I said - NEVER!
Everyone (including me) would prefer it to be about their pet issue, but at the end of the day people across the world pushed the "Things cost too much, let's try someone else" button in 2024. Things cost significantly more now, so they pushed then "someone else" button even harder.
Harris didn't lose because she was a lame duck, she lost because she wanted to appeal to the center and the right more so than the left. The race was close enough that the leftists she alienated by refusing to take a stand against Israel, alone, might have put her over the top.
>Harris had a more leftist voting record in Senate than Sanders https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/28/kamala-harr...
and came across as rather dim. I watched her twice saying 300 million Americans died of covid. The figure was 300 k but if you can't do thousand vs million and not realise 300 million dying was unlikely should you be president?
My brother in Christ do you think people voted for Trump because he was the more intelligent choice? He says dumber things than that all the time, and puts them into policy.
Heck, let's make it bipartisan - Obama once said he campaigned in "all 57 states." Minor gaffes like this don't actually matter, they happen all the time. What matters is platform and policy, and the only people I've seen who had an opinion on Kamala Harris' platform were Democrats. The Republicans she wanted to court were never going to vote for her on principle, and the fence-sitters were too disillusioned and cynical to bother showing up.
I followed democratic strategist James Carville a bit and he said when Biden proved gaga that they should have a townhall for prospective candidates and choose the best and it was unamerican to just anoint some insider. If they had actually done that I think they would have found someone competent and won, but no and we have the current nightmare.
I think there needs to be a return to selecting people who are honest competent and represent the majority.
Indeed. One of the few people to know there’s a “b” in “dumb.”
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I hear all the time the corrupt DCCC/DNC sabotaged Bernie Sanders at every turn because big donors/uniparty yadaydayada...
If I could summarize the state of political debate in the USA it would be "incoherent".
I think the idea of qualified is correct, I think what's wrong is that Americans don't care about the quality of the people they elect.
(I was raised feminist by my feminist mom and while I miss her terribly, some days I am happy she's no longer here to be depressed about what a horror show the U.S. has become.)
Harris got a ton of votes despite being unelected (remember she didn't win a primary) and unpopular. This woman excuse is a cope and borderline sexist. Look how many women won their races yesterday.
If Trump didn't start the Iran war, Texas, South Carolina would still be red.
Ordinary people only voted blue because gas prices were hurting their bottom line.
Trump oversaw the US succumbing to COVID pandemic. People still voted for him second term. Biden led one of the most remarkable economic recovery in modern times. People still were convinced by endless propaganda that economy was in the shitter and voted him out.
Due to all the tribalism created by social media, US government has become like any other third world nation where every election cycle people just vote the opposition into power.