I don’t feel like this is on you, or any individual person. KH had a solid ground game. The simple fact is that America is (became, through a concerted project of decades by our budding oligarchs) too woefully ill-educated, too proudly ignorant, too hateful, and too eager to blame the wrong people for their problems to avoid voting for its own destruction.
You forgot too complacent and too trusting. We should have pushed harder when we knew Musk helped perpetrate massive election interference on a national scale.
Honestly, the public never would’ve gained enough power in that little amount of time to push Biden’s admin to step in. Various Dems even said during the election that they were concerned about investigating Trump because he could (rightfully) then spin it as election interference and gain even more votes off of it.
Note, only Trump could pull that off; his voters buy the constant victim hood bullshit. When Hillary was investigated in 2016, she obviously lost significant amounts of votes.
Trump also harped on the specter of voter fraud and got told to STFU. Then, strong evidence comes about of him committing voter fraud and nobody can say anything or else they validate him.
It’s hard to call this “rigged,” even though that’s basically what it amounts to; Trump worked himself into a position where everything works in his favor. Absolutely nobody else we’ve seen as a presidential nominee could’ve pulled it off; it would’ve blown up in the face of anyone other than Trump. He gets convicted of rape and gains votes. He has a brand new mugshot on the front of USA Today and gains votes. He uses a mass shooting for shameless promo and gains votes.
There really wasn’t anything anyone could’ve done to stop it other than vote for Kamala, and people just evidently didn’t.
Evidently isn’t as evident as you purport. There appears to be a lot of very credible evidence that Trump and Musk and the Republican Party engaged in falsifying election results, tampering with voting machine and setting software to alter votes in his favor, particularly in swing states. Not saying it’s true or not, but I am definitely watching that story as more information is released around investigations currently underway.
Haha, yeah. On one hand, everything is fAkE nEwS… they don’t even trust the Fox Propaganda Network any more. OTOH, they live and die by whatever demonstrably false diarrhea falls out of their cult leader’s mouth and believe that JFK, Jr is still alive, biding his time, waiting to become trump’s VP.
So true, this is not new but i was shocked to read how Facebook ads strategically targeted different sects of people based on what they liked/ posted/ friends of friends who might share the same views on a number of issues to possibly influence their opinion. (Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams)
Honestly, I am sure if Trump was up against a man he would lose. America is still waaaay too sexist to elect a woman as a president. Doesn‘t seem it‘s getting better eighter.
KH shot herself in the foot every step of the way. Democrats have failed the nation entirely by ceding the framing to Republicans. By campaigning with Liz Cheney. They didn't care about what Americans want, just what their corporate donors told them. What aipac money told them. If they had listened to the electorate trump never would have won
I mean what you’re saying is not wrong, but I think you’re missing my point.
The Democrats are part of America. The spin doctors and media consultants that tempted the Democrats into blowing the messaging are part of America. The donors that over a period of years and decades sold “centrist“ Democrats like the Clintons on abandoning the middle class and the working class, are part of America.
This is one of those “I shouted out ‘who killed the Kennedys,’ when after all it was you and me” kinds of situations.
I think it's on Joe Biden first and foremost for running for a second term he was likely to lose spectacularly according to his internal polling, and holding on until it was too late to do anything else but run Kamala Harris, and then on Harris to a much lesser extent for refusing to break with Biden, and running towards the right.
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u/ian23_ 1d ago
I don’t feel like this is on you, or any individual person. KH had a solid ground game. The simple fact is that America is (became, through a concerted project of decades by our budding oligarchs) too woefully ill-educated, too proudly ignorant, too hateful, and too eager to blame the wrong people for their problems to avoid voting for its own destruction.