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We tried to warn you that genocide was a losing issue.
You were so devoted to netanyahu that you didn't care.
But she needed those millions in lobbyist bribes! Who cares if America falls to Trump when money was to be made.
Yes, thank goodness we saved Gaza by keeping those dems out of office.
Do you get that literally has nothing to do with what we are talking about here?
Harris lost because the voters felt alienated. You may not care. You may not think that matters. At the end of the day, it did.
The voters voted for childcare. They voted for family leave. They voted for rescheduled cannabis. They voted for a minimum wage increase. They gave the party enough seats to do what Biden campaigned on, and then watched the clearest display of utter disregard for the voice of the people we've seen in decades. The voters saw a party that knew what they wanted, knew how to help them, and chose not to.
The voters wanted justice for January 6. They got a justice department chaired by a republican with no concept of urgency. The voters saw a party that was uninterested in pursuing justice against insurrectionists.
The voters did not vote for the foreign policy they got from Biden. They did not vote for unconditional support for genocide. At this point, we were almost 3 years into a Biden presidency that wasn't going to help them. The voters saw who the party was willing to help.
Then the voters saw the party sue as many opponents off the primary ballot as they could. They saw the party try to pretend that a primary where only one candidate was on the ballot in all 50 states was somehow a competitive honest primary. The voters saw who the party was willing to fight against, and it wasn't Republicans.
When it became clear that Biden was not up to the task before him, they appointed Harris nominee without anything approaching input from the people. The voters saw a party leadership abusing an old man in order to cling to power they refused to wield, and a party willing to disregard the will of the people so thoroughly that they didn't even bother asking anymore.
But even that wasn't enough. When people started griping that they couldn't afford groceries, the messaging from the party could not have been more tone deaf. Telling people whose lives are getting worse that things are improving is asking them to buy something contrary to what they are feeling, sometimes literally on a visceral level. Democratic voters are not as willing to deny the evidence of their senses as Republican voters are. They saw a party that expected them to buy bullshit instead of groceries.
And then Harris said she wasn't going to differ from Biden in any significant way. Which dashed any hopes of anything improving.
And then Democrats adopted Republican border policy. Which wasn't enough for Republicans, naturally, but it alienated even more people Democrats needed. Voters saw a party that was willing to abandon vulnerable people and get nothing out of it.
If Democrats had been actively trying to alienate every voter who was even remotely willing to vote for them, they couldn't have done much worse.
Then the election happened and Democrats blamed the voters. Well, we're back where we started on this. Only now the electorate doesn't trust Democrats.
And it's not like Democrats have been doing much to regain their trust. The party ousted David Hogg. Party leadership campaigned against their own nominee in New York City after more than a decade of "blue no matter who." Centrists' darling Newsom is going on a capitulation tour, letting Charlie Kirk know that he agrees with him about trans people, and letting Ben Shapiro know that he doesn't think the genocide in Gaza happened. And this is what centrists expect their base to vote for. After a primary no one seriously believes will be honest.
Oh, those unreasonable spoiled voters. We give and give and give and they still stay home.
Strawman argument. People didnt abstain from voting for Harris because it would "save" Gaza. They did it because both candidates shared the common ideal of bombing Gaza to smithereens and they refused to support that.
It's incredibly disgusting for people like you to now mock others for opposing genocide just because your preferred candidate thought that supporting slaughter was more important than defeating her opponent and it all blew up in her face.
Maybe you should hitch your wagon to better candidates if you don't want to be disappointed. That's on you not anyone else. Even now more than a year after the election was decided, you still think standing alongside genocide and Dick Cheney was the right call and can't understand why you lost. You are the company you keep, buddy.
You make a good argument but I always get nervous when someone says "people like you". It sounds kind of arrogant/superior. If that was your intention then so be it.
This person is using the slaughter of innocent men, women, and children as a tool to mock others all because they're mad that a stranger didn't win a contest. I don't see what they're doing as any different than what Republicans are doing now in comment sections across the internet over the murder of Renee Good.
This user and those Republicans share a lot more ideologically than either would care to admit, so I have no problem with my comment sounding arrogant/superior to their abhorrent behavior.