(this is a sarcastic post meant to highlight the absurdity of some of the “greater good” rhetoric we’ve been hearing, especially around leaving vulnerable populations like disabled people behind in case of revolution, basically accelerationism)

  • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netEnglish
    436·
    3 days ago

    Oh I voted for Harris (and am also not the person you replied to) but “Compromise on all your ideals” describes the trajectory of the Kamala candidacy quite well. And that’s best case. Worst case, as the atlantic suggested way back in 2020, she didn’t share those ideals to begin with.

    And that sprint to the right that she made didn’t move the needle on R voters at all. She should have campaigned like she wanted Democrat votes, but she didn’t. She talked a lot about her Glock and got cozy with the war criminals of the prior generation, didn’t talk much about climate change, and even gave space on stage to Liz Cheney at the DNC instead of even giving a single minute to a pro-Palestine Democrat, to try getting some of the basket of deplorables to pick her. None of them did, and it didn’t make Democrats very happy either.

    Maybe if the Democratic candidate had acted like she wanted Democrat votes, this map would have looked different in the end.

      • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netEnglish
        253·
        3 days ago

        If the first week and a half had been indicative of the rest of the campaign we’d have a woman in the white house right now. Skipping a meeting with Bibi, picking walz, Republicans are weird, joy, the coconut shit. Cringe as fuck but people were excited and that’s all that matters in American politics, then she came out and gave a full throated right wing speech at the dnc and it all went down from there.

        💯

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      215·
      3 days ago

      Maybe if the Democratic candidate had acted like she wanted Democrat votes, this map would have looked different in the end.

      Ah, professional politician eh? That’s some rarefied air there.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      524·
      3 days ago

      Keep going… What drives turnout? Citizen campaigning.

      Maybe if leftists didn’t spend the year leading up to the election protesting the better candidate we would have seen a better outcome.

      • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netEnglish
        266·
        3 days ago

        So Kamala had no duty to motivate the people she wanted to vote for her? That seems a bit backwards from how I’ve always understood elections.

        I agree that “Not Trump” actually should be enough in today’s climate - but it wasn’t in 2016, so why trot out that playbook again? Seems shortsighted and stupid, almost as if corporate donations and Republican voters seemed more imporantant to the DNC than Democrat voters, who were just expected to be “in the bag.”

      • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        216·
        3 days ago

        The proper assignment of blame is on Joe Biden for not getting out of the way to have a real primary.

        People weren’t given a choice for their candidate. Excitement drives Democratic turnout, and they’ve been tamping down expectations for decades now. There’s nothing exciting about the campaign strategy of “we’re not Donald Trump.”

        Blaming leftists for the failings of liberals is what keeps pushing the party establishment to the right.

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        I see the BlueMAGA crowd has moved from “you have to vote for Democrats” to “you can never criticize Democrats”