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Republican: Starts a fire
Republican: sticks their hand in the fire and burns themselves
Republican: in their panic, they set their entire house on fire
Republican: "THE EVIL GODLESS DEMOCRATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS, GOD DAMN THOSE WOKE LIBERAL DEVILS!"
"Blame the Democrats" works as a strategy because conservative Democrats will just mirror whatever a more-popular Republican is saying in order to win votes. That's how Al Gore fucked us all in 2000. That's how John Kerry fucked us all in 2004. That's how Hillary Clinton fucked us all in 2016 and Harris fucked us in 2024. Nevermind all the downticket races where some empty suit or partisan hack tries to run to the right by screaming "I hate liberals!" louder than the Republican in the race.
Florida is absolutely flush with "Pro-LIfe" Democrats. It's not uncommon to live in a blue county in a red state, where liberal municipal officials meticulously enforce fascist legislation on the grounds that they're powerless to do otherwise.
The end result is Republicans getting away with this bullshit by insisting "We don't oppose all abortions, just the wrong kind of abortions" and then pointing to the Democrats stuck with the drudgework of enforcing their shitty laws when it comes time to pass blame. Democrats could resist Republican legislation as fiercely as Republicans fight liberal laws in red states and districts. But if they're just the lackeys of reactionary state government, they're easy whipping boys.
I'm not a Harris fan by any means, but what did she do to "fuck us?"
I mean, her stance on Israel and Palestine wasn't great, but it was massively better than Trump.
Three months campaigning with Liz Cheney, one of the least popular politicians in the country, just for starters.
And shutting down Palestinian voters, saying she'd stick to the Biden plan, not saying no more money, vetos, and weapons for genocide...
I mean... trying to win over moderate, independent, and anti-Trump Republican voters seems like a reasonable approach given the way the current voting system works.
If anything, it seems that Biden and the DNC fucked us by not having a primary. Biden should have committed to a one and done. She may have fucked us by accepting the nomination without a primary, but I honestly blame Biden for that far more.
I do agree that Kamala didn't help the situation all that much. But I still don't see how she really fucked us.
How many elections must they fail to win before it finally becomes obvious that, no, it is not a reasonable approach.
And to really drive the point home, how much did Obama go to the right to win? Or how much did he run on actually trying to improve this fucked country?
It consistently failed to win elections
It was how Biden won his election, so... it has won elections. It was just a bad strategy for Harris.
Biden ran to the left of Sanders in 2020
She ran as a republican
They do it because it works. How often do you see a post where the comments make it clear that most people read the headline, but not the article? If enough people internalize the headline and pass it on socially, the message spreads like wildfire because 1) we are more inclined to believe news we have heard from known friends and 2) because the article with real information is separated from the conversation and probably difficult for the person to find.
We don’t live in a society based on facts anymore. It’s reactionary headlines playing a game of telephone