I understood it as the other party putting in lame duck after lame duck.
(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.
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.
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.
When elitist people people throw qualification as an administrative CV measuring contest, the regular people are correct to teach a lesson and bring them down from their clouds to the earth.
The elitist idea of qualification is wrong. That's the beauty of democracy, it's the greatest educator. But elitists are not capable of learning, they'll only see what they want to see and blame "the regular people".
>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?
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".
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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