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  • Harris wasn’t nominated, which is part of the problem, but that’s ultimately on Biden.

    Harris ran a shit campaign, but she basically got thrown into it at the last minute. Campaigning against trump was expensive, so she shifted her message to try to secure more funding and reach across the aisle to win people away from trump. That ended up being a mistake.

    But, as VP she pushed for an official investigation into Israel’s actions in Gaza that would have been required to negate the law requiring us to fund them. And if you look at her Senate voting history, she was the closest to Sanders out of everyone.

    Often in life you don’t get perfect choices, or even good ones. There will never be a political candidate that will check all of your boxes, but when the choice is between getting a cavity and getting curb stomped, only an idiot would bite the curb.

    Letting Trump win isn’t punishing the Democrat leadership, it’s punishing the entire country and then some. The right move would have been to elect Harris, then spend the next 4 years working on primarying the neoliberals. The MAGA movement would have lost a ton of steam if he had lost, which would have given some breathing room to do that.

    But now everyone’s efforts are going towards fighting back against Trump’s promised fascist takeover of the country, a genocide on our own home soil, a looming great depression, and the start of WWIII.

    Progress is slow, and choosing the 2024 election to make a stand was really fucking stupid timing, as evidenced by the current state of affairs.












  • If an outlet in your home started an electrical fire, it would be pretty stupid to ignore the fire to focus on fixing the wiring. You don’t have any more wiring if the house burns down.

    Their analysis was totally accurate. The voters who abstained from voting D as a protest decided that the wiring had to be fixed first instead of putting out the fire and focusing on the wires once the immediate danger was taken care of.

    The only victims here are those who did what they had to in order to prevent Trump’s second term. Everyone else made a choice to risk it and lost.