So let me get this straight. There are so many "far-leftists" that them not voting cost the Dems the erection
But also Trump won because the "evil, stupid uncivilized masses" are all right-wing transphobes so the Dems have to be more right-wing next erection to sway voters?!
This election loss should have resulted in Dem infighting imo, instead of blaming the group that Harris told to fuck off.
I just checked and Stein ended up with 744,757 and de la Cruz got 138,095. West's totals are negligible. But those are the leftist votes that probably matter.
The Dems lost by 3,005,137 votes. Harris got 72,953,282 and Trump got 75,958,419 votes.
In 2020, Biden won with 81,284,666 votes compared to Trump's 74,224,319.
Biden won by 7,060,347 and Harris lost by 3,005,137. The leftist vote total is 782,852 and some change. There is no concevable way I can see that magic 6 digit number being the catalyst to Harris' failure when Biden got 8,331,384 more votes. Those are the Dem votes. Not the Left waffling this time around.(Ok, subtract one vote because I did vote for Biden in 2020).
I'm not a numbers guy but this really just points at Dems not turning out to vote because Harris just isn't likeable. Dems didn't get a say in their candidate because Biden waited 2 months until election to step down and the DNC had to scramble to make Kamala look "hireable" even though she was one of the first to bow out during 2020 primaries. In that 2 months time, Harris managed to alienate the Muslim vote because she's a terrorist, and when asked about whether trans people should exist, she said "it should be up to the states to decide" which is fucking exactly how we got to where we are with reproductive rights. Her saying that is a right-wing talking point. All she had to do was lie about it and she'd have appeared slightly more likable. But instead she supports genocide and wants to sweep my trans friends' right to exist under the rug. Fuck her. She deserved to lose.
And why the fuck did RFK jr still manage to get 718,693 votes when he bowed out 3 months ago?
It's been done and stein votes are nowhere close to Kamala. So instead, people have started accusing leftists of voting Trump directly because a few people did vote for both people like AOC and Trump... Generally low information voters with no concrete principles - just vibes about liking "outsiders", regardless of whether a supposed silver-spoon billionaire could ever even remotely consider an outside.
The take that everyone thinks it's the fault of the group they least like is the most correct imho. The conservative dems all think it's because of woke and Trump's anti-trans ads. The xenophobic dems are blaming the misogynistic Latinos and Muslims, the voting-once-every-four-years-and-making-it-my-entire-personality dems are blaming the nonvoters, every single one of whom apparently had the time and energy to show up to the polls and faced no barriers whatsoever, and the handful left-leaning dems are pointing out that Harris ran a crappy campaign and campaigned with the scion of a war criminal more than her own VP (the response to which has been having standards is a privilege when Trump is on the ballot). The Marvel-brained dems are fun ones, they're running around saying that getting angry at the national party is like blaming the hero for not stopping the villain and asking why is no one blaming the Republicans for their votes (lots of overlap with the xenophobic Dems with anger directed toward crossover voters).
I really kinda wish I was doing a sociological study because the dynamic is interesting. Also sclerotic and nightmarishly involuted, but that's what makes it interesting.
Liberals are outnumbered 2-to-1 by non-voters. 50% of the electorate did not vote in 2020. Dems blew a billion dollars and have this to show for it. With over half the electorate not voting, where was the outreach? Where was the phonebanking and doorknocking? Like a fart in the wind...
But boy oh boy an avalanche of donation requests. No organizing, only donations :only-throw:
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Here are some non-doomer threads to breadpill your :LIB: friends and family
that workers’ candidates are nominated everywhere in opposition to bourgeois-democratic candidates. As far as possible they should be League members and their election should be pursued by all possible means. Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled.
I'm becoming more and more convinced they didn't want to win. Obama got record turnouts because his entire campaign was centered around getting people registered to vote and going door-to-door.
Either current dems are incompetent and forgot 2008 or they remember and are deliberately doing the opposite.
They'll get it back when they give me the $1400 Joe Biden personally owes me. Fuck it, I'm not a charity, throw on 30% annual interest, call it an even $4000.