• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    I don’t think there are 15 Million “Gaza or bust” voters so this was just pure ignorance…

    I believe there were 15 million "oh look, Harris is besties with Liz Cheney and continuing the half assed approach that Dems keep doing so who fucking cares’ people. I totally see why her poll numbers kept dropping over the course of her campaign after a strong start.

    I still voted for her, but at that point is was just another vote against Republicans.

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      All these people on these threads blaming it on the voters when Harris had it in her power to run a different campaign is just lazy. Harris not only had a brake she could pull to stop the “trolley”, she had a damned steering wheel to steer completely away from running people over, and she made a choice not to. Dont blame the peasants for shit leadership.

      Every single swing state lost. Both congress and the house lost. Thats a badly out of touch party, not stupid voters.

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      I think that takes more thought than even those who vote with us do. I think we seriously overestimate the political intelligence of the people in this country. Not to say 0% were those people, but if we’re talking millions I think we’re talking about typical ignorance.

      I think the vast majority vote D for social issues, but once their pocketbook gets hurt it’s time to sit it out or worse “punish” the party in power by voting for the opposition. :(

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        They succeeded in punishing the party. For a price. We’ll revisit later if it was worth it.

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          if you listen to interviews of non voters they’re not even online. Ever. Like we need more people reaching out to real humans in the real world. they don’t listen to news they arent online. I don’t think democrats were ever going to win this one, too many voters are entirely unreachable.

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          It would take 100 years minimum to undo the damage that will be done, so I’m going to say “not worth it”.

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            The damage to the environment will never be undone. The US will double-down on emissions and most other countries in the world will stop trying because they won’t think there’s any point anymore.

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      So they thought through what it means to associate with a Cheney, but at the same time didn’t care enough to do anything about this situation? I don’t buy it. Apathy lost this election. And democrats share blame for that obviously, but acting like voters were right to stay home isn’t the right takeaway.

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        And democrats share blame for that obviously, but acting like voters were right to stay home isn’t the right takeaway.

        Agreed, which is why I still voted despite sharing the same demotivation.