Given how much disadvantage being an incumbent was the last cycle across the globe I think she actually would've won in say 2016 but an incumbent candidate was not the one to run in 2024.
All Harris had to do to win was promise to stop sending arms to Israel.
Many, many polls showed this very clearly. 77% of Democrat voters wanted an arms embargo, and over 30% of 2020 Biden voters in key battleground states said that this issue was serious enough to affect their vote.
> A Harris organizer who worked on youth turnout said that senior campaign officials gave them an order: When they sent out mass volunteer or fundraising emails and people replied by asking about Gaza, they were told to mark it as “no response.” The result? They seldom ended up engaging with voters on that issue.
So yeah, if there was one thing wrong with Harris, that would be it. That one issue would have changed the result, and as far as single issues go, I call genocide a pretty big one. It's kinda the biggest.
Far from the only issue though - campaigning with Dick Cheney was pretty fucking stupid, for one thing. Then there was promising to be harsher on immigration than Trump. Promising the world's "most lethal" military (we already are?) while trying to gaslight broke Americans into believing the economy was great. In general, trying to pick up right wing votes was a heinous 'strategy'.
Extremist positions on trans issues. To quote Sam Harris: "Congratulations, Democrats. You have found the most annoying thing in the fucking galaxy and hung it around your necks."[1]
She had only one really important job to do as vice president—become president if the president was incapable of doing the job. She, like many administration (and media), put her political party’s optics over the good of the country and tried to hide Joe Biden’s mental decline from the population. She was literally derelict in her most important duty as vice president. How could she be trusted as president?
I’m an independent and I could not and would not vote for her for this reason. I could not and would not vote for Trump either, so I simply didn’t vote.
Is there a Democrat doing ANYTHING beside Bernie Sanders? Chuck Schumer is actively aiding the Republicans at this point. Where are the other Democratic leaders to rally people? Where's Kamala Harris or Hillary, I thought they were supposed to be strong leaders? I only see the far left of the party doing anything at all. I honestly think the Democrats are so captured by corporate interests that they would prefer Trump than to build on any leftist sentiment while America absolutely burns its reputation to the ground. And half the country still supports this which is its own can of worms (and I could go on about worldwide attacks on democracy in general but it's depressing enough). I hope the Democrats are cooking something up or hopefully they get reformed in time to do something.
Trump won because he took all the liberal policies that the Democrats abandoned for more extreme values and made them his core values. This is why he had the most diverse set of voters in the history of the Republican Party, because many were ex-Democrats.
The Democratic Party loves nothing more than doing nothing and losing elections. Doing things risks upsetting donors. When you don't have power, it's easy to promise progressive policies that you have zero chance of enacting (eg Kamala Harrais was for Medicare-for-all in 2019 [1]). They are the controlled opposition party [2].
Trump advertized everything he was going to do and is now doing [3], despite briefly distance himself from it [4] when it became unpopular for the brief period Democrats messaged about it. Nobody actually believed that. The majority of the authors are former Trump staffers. No one in politics can feign shock or surprise.
We know Democrats are capable of fighting. The problem is they only do that against progressive elemnts of their own party. It's not just Bernie Sanders either (both times). Look at the history of Buffalo mayor Byron Brown [5].
Progressive policies are incredibly popular. Democrats are not. In places like Florida, Kansas and Missouri, ballot initiatives outperformed Harris-Walz by as much as 20 points.
Democrats won't even lie to us about enacting progresive policies. The Democratic leadership and donors are more comfortable with Trump being in power than Bernie Sanders. They're also more interested in protecting the Israeli settler colonial project than winning elections.
Not every Trump voter is a Brownshirt either. Many are simply working people who have legitimate grievances, abandoned by the Democratic economic policies that favor corporations over the New Deal that allowed Democrats to control Congress for almost 60 years.
Whatever bad stuff is going on now, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are absolutely complicit in it.
> Not every Trump voter is a Brownshirt either. Many are simply working people who have legitimate grievances, abandoned by the Democratic economic policies
To clarify, Trump has not been good economically for the working class
But we can have the correct answer for the audience via my Serbian colleague: local construction corruption got sufficiently bad that people got killed, and then it escalated into general complaints about not listening to the public and complicit media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_railway_station_canop...
> hat's how you get EU and USAID funding to standup to a president outside of the WEF overton window, certainly.
Is this some US-based fiction among maga fanatics to pat on their wobbly backs?
Those people protest for they want freedom and self-determination in their lives, something even maga supporter with lowest IQ in the crowd should comprehend - the need for personal freedom is natural to all humans, yes even those without US passports. Something all dictators in all forms are very keen to take away as we are seeing everywhere including US.
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lesuorac|11 months ago
Given how much disadvantage being an incumbent was the last cycle across the globe I think she actually would've won in say 2016 but an incumbent candidate was not the one to run in 2024.
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Many, many polls showed this very clearly. 77% of Democrat voters wanted an arms embargo, and over 30% of 2020 Biden voters in key battleground states said that this issue was serious enough to affect their vote.
> A Harris organizer who worked on youth turnout said that senior campaign officials gave them an order: When they sent out mass volunteer or fundraising emails and people replied by asking about Gaza, they were told to mark it as “no response.” The result? They seldom ended up engaging with voters on that issue.
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/uncommitted-le...
So yeah, if there was one thing wrong with Harris, that would be it. That one issue would have changed the result, and as far as single issues go, I call genocide a pretty big one. It's kinda the biggest.
Far from the only issue though - campaigning with Dick Cheney was pretty fucking stupid, for one thing. Then there was promising to be harsher on immigration than Trump. Promising the world's "most lethal" military (we already are?) while trying to gaslight broke Americans into believing the economy was great. In general, trying to pick up right wing votes was a heinous 'strategy'.
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AlexandrB|11 months ago
[1] https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-reckoning
kcplate|11 months ago
I’m an independent and I could not and would not vote for her for this reason. I could not and would not vote for Trump either, so I simply didn’t vote.
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jmyeet|11 months ago
Trump advertized everything he was going to do and is now doing [3], despite briefly distance himself from it [4] when it became unpopular for the brief period Democrats messaged about it. Nobody actually believed that. The majority of the authors are former Trump staffers. No one in politics can feign shock or surprise.
We know Democrats are capable of fighting. The problem is they only do that against progressive elemnts of their own party. It's not just Bernie Sanders either (both times). Look at the history of Buffalo mayor Byron Brown [5].
Progressive policies are incredibly popular. Democrats are not. In places like Florida, Kansas and Missouri, ballot initiatives outperformed Harris-Walz by as much as 20 points.
Democrats won't even lie to us about enacting progresive policies. The Democratic leadership and donors are more comfortable with Trump being in power than Bernie Sanders. They're also more interested in protecting the Israeli settler colonial project than winning elections.
Not every Trump voter is a Brownshirt either. Many are simply working people who have legitimate grievances, abandoned by the Democratic economic policies that favor corporations over the New Deal that allowed Democrats to control Congress for almost 60 years.
Whatever bad stuff is going on now, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are absolutely complicit in it.
[1]: https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/medicare-for-al...
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uPevWDAYFI
[3]: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-the-pl...
[4]: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/22/g-s1-19202/trump-project-2025...
[5]: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2021/11/19/in...
01HNNWZ0MV43FF|11 months ago
To clarify, Trump has not been good economically for the working class
gadders|11 months ago
Citation needed.
>>Look at the protests in Hungary, look at Serbia—that’s how you stand up to a fascist
That's how you get EU and USAID funding to standup to a president outside of the WEF overton window, certainly.
pjc50|11 months ago
But we can have the correct answer for the audience via my Serbian colleague: local construction corruption got sufficiently bad that people got killed, and then it escalated into general complaints about not listening to the public and complicit media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_railway_station_canop...
sjsdaiuasgdia|11 months ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mzk2y41zvo
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-junk-science-of-...
https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/rfk-jr-and-h...
jajko|11 months ago
Is this some US-based fiction among maga fanatics to pat on their wobbly backs?
Those people protest for they want freedom and self-determination in their lives, something even maga supporter with lowest IQ in the crowd should comprehend - the need for personal freedom is natural to all humans, yes even those without US passports. Something all dictators in all forms are very keen to take away as we are seeing everywhere including US.