• Guidy@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Unfortunately too many people decided she didn’t hate Israel enough and sat out the election. And the democrats aren’t changing either way.

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      12 days ago

      Which entertaining that Harris was as bad as Trump on Israel/Gaza policy (she wasn’t), every person who sat out objectively said, “I also don’t care about Russia’s genocide in Ukraine, Women’s bodily autonomy, climate change, vaccination policy, or LGBTQ+ rights.”

      Suckers fell for the bullshit.

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        12 days ago

        In a winner-take-all election, anything but a vote for the runner-up is an endorsement of whoever wins.

        Yes, this system is stupid. But we’re not going to ever fix it by pretending that the rules of the game aren’t what they are. Any eligible voter who didn’t vote for Trump or Harris make a clear statement that Donald and protect 2025 were just fine by them. Regardless if they stayed home, voted for a vanity campaign, or just left the POTUS choice blank.

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          Yes. If you did not vote for Harris in an essentially two-party election, you condoned Trump and allowed him to do everything he is doing now. You can’t pretend you had no part in it, because you supported his election.

          If you voted for Harris, you voted to stop Trump and Project 2025. Ie, you believed in our country, wrong or right.

          Otherwise, you decided that our country was no longer worth preserving, and you handed it to people who told you they would tear it apart to “get even” with half its citizens.

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      12 days ago

      There’s a lot of space between hating Israel and being Israel’s lapdog. Kamala didn’t use any of it.

      They aren’t changing because they don’t need to. The job is already done, their public was successfully manipulated into blaming anyone but the actual people that are in charge of rhe party and the platform itself. Enabling and scapegoating does not lead to change.

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        12 days ago

        I’ve seen polls showing that many progressives voted and many right-leaning democrats didn’t so I think the answer is to lean harder right to capture those votes.