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People didn't vote for Harris because she was a colored woman, that's what voting patterns show
They just said it was because of Dick Cheney or Palestine
Reminds me of this story.
In 1980 they took a poll of people who had been eligible to vote in the 1960 election between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. One of the questions they asked was 'who did you vote for in 1960?' In real life, the election was 51-49% a real squeaker. However, according to the poll, it was a 90-10% blow out for JFK.
Exit polls said people mostly switched to Trump because of their concerns about grocery prices, which they attributed to the current president (Biden) and thought that Harris just represented more of Biden's policies.
Exit polling is generally considered a little more viable because there's less "agenda" behind people's answers.
All this said, the real culprit here was outside influence. Over the last decade or so there have been many foreign "troll farms" paid to flood American social media with accounts boosting the loudest, most outlandish takes on BOTH sides of every social issue. This is the KGB handbook for destabilizing democracies. Racism and sexism was part of it, but so was deliberate sabotage and efforts to boost racism and sexism in the US. Which we seem to fall for with ease.
Once the general population can no longer tell what's real or not, once they can't figure out what side to take because everything is too hard to follow or too complex take a side on, they tune out. They stop getting involved. They hear a state-controlled news site (FOX, Rogan) give them a story and they shrug and accept it because they don't know the alternative.
Nearly half of eligible voters didn't turn out last election, and I say again, this was by design.
edit: user below has a history of getting banned across Lemmy, unsurprisingly, but if anyone is interested and not just here to be delusional and weird, they can look this up, election was sabotaged from many directions, if you can't handle talking about this problem, you have no business on the internet making statements. I can defend and discuss what I've learned with a cool head, can you?
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/votecast/
I don't know why you think if you keep posting the same meme in reply to me that I'm going to do anything other than block you. It's lame, it's 2-dimensional and self-gratifying and contributes nothing to the conversation.
Less 2-dimensional and self-gratifying than you endlessly posting your Qanon-style conspiracy theory about how all of America's problems are actually due to the perfidious machinations of conniving foreigners.
Nah if you refuse to look at voting data because it goes against your narrative you can fuck right off.
The real numbers show white men/women, and hispanic men stayed home for Kamala when previously they voted for Biden.
And that's a difference of almost 13 million votes which would have made them win in 2024.
Those groups could vote for the white man but not the colored woman with the same policies.
I'm blocking you now because reality is not subjective.
I don't think you're actually blocking me, I think you just aren't prepared to have an actual conversation and just wanted to rant without anyone adding more complexity and nuance to your head-story. I'm not even arguing or denying that you had a point, I'm supplying you additional information and data, you should be appreciative.
I'm sorry, but reality is also more complicated than the 2-dimensional, cartoonish talking points your favorite youtube political streamer dumps on you.