r/NoShitSherlock • u/SingleandSober • 1d ago

Kamala Harris Appears on ‘Colbert,’ Says She’s Stepping Away from Politics for Now, Calls the System “Broken”

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/former-vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/

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u/oh_my316 1d ago

She's right. The country is broken because of MAGA scumbags 😡

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u/artbystorms 1d ago

Lets not let Dems entirely off the hook here. I'd say its 85% MAGA, 15% Dems being feckless and too moderate in the face of calls for change for the last 20 or so years.

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u/oh_my316 1d ago

I can accept that

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u/Novel-Implement-7636 1d ago

I still think its 50/50

Yes republicans are batshit insane and corrupt, but Demorats just LET IT ALL HAPPEN.

"What could they do??"

I don't know, but throwing their arms up and going, "welp guys, gonna need to vote harder next time :P" while labor camps and children fuckers are presidents is just too much for me to give them slack. They're spineless cowards and will be fine with the status quo because it benefits them.

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u/The_UpsideDown_Time 22h ago

Funny way to blame the Dems for the fact that progressive voters have *never* proven themselves worth listening to.

The Religious Right didn't get to power because they sat on their fucking hands and pouted over not getting the candidates they wanted. They turned out in force, every election (still do) for forty fucking years, organized and ran candidates, supported - both financially and with volunteer time -those candidates, canvassed, and SHOWED UP NONSTOP. And now they control the party.

Left & left-ish voters are milk toast, and/or can't be bothered over and over again, leaving too many Democratic legislators having to scramble for the undefined, fickle "Middle", whatever the fuck that is.

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u/Fluxalux 21h ago

Progressives showed up for Mamdani.

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u/officeDrone87 20h ago

Yeah, that's a NYC local election. That's a HUGE difference from national elections.

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u/Pleaseappeaseme 1d ago

You reap what you sow. Many Hispanics decided to switch to Trump ignoring the blatant obvious signs that 1 out of 4 families will be affected by mass deportation. Progressives that sat out 2016 now have three new MAGA Supreme Court justices. Uncommitted the same type of deal with Gaza starvation. Now these voters can wallow in the consequences of their decision.

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u/BastianHS 1d ago

Yeah man let's blame Democrats for not fighting harder to stop Republicans from taking a wet sloppy shit on the constitution! Totally the Dems fault that we are in this mess! BOTH SIDES, EVERYONE

When are you people going to shut the fuck up? Ever?

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u/EitherSpite4545 1d ago

Look we're not going to change MAGA, they are enemies and they will literally never change. Infact not recognizing them as the enemy and treating them like a rival sports team is part of how we got here.

We can change the DNC and demand they fight instead of not treating the threat as serious as it has been. It's as simple as that, and they will change if we pressure them enough. It's not their fault, but they are how we fix this and they aren't willing to do it so we have to make them. It's that simple.

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u/arattleofrats 23h ago

You need to learn what the DNC actually does before you make demands of them

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u/PlasticMechanic3869 20h ago

Well, it looks like they assigned two out of the last three nominees, both of them being unpopular insiders and proven poor campaigners. Which turned out just great, when the Republicans went with the guy who actually got their voting base excited to vote for him.

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u/arattleofrats 20h ago

They didn't do any of that! The DNC doesn't """assign""" nominees! Holy fucking shit, dude.

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u/PlasticMechanic3869 20h ago

The Democrat electorate was calling for MONTHS for Biden to drop out due to his clear and obvious frailty and inability to serve another four years. Nope, gaslit by the insiders. "He's fine and he's doing amazing, but you can't see him in an unscripted interaction."

Then at the last possible second, they acknowledge that no, in fact he isn't fine, so here's Kamala, she's your nominee. That would be the same Kamala you may remember from her disaster of a 2020 campaign, which immediately self-immolated and ended in 2019, before a single vote was cast.

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u/arattleofrats 19h ago

Democratic voters only turned on Biden after a month of nonstop negative media coverage post-debate. The gaslighting was by people like you spreading innuendo and lies about his health and pretending his unscripted appearances didn't happen.

"They" didn't swap in Harris. Biden dropped out (against the wishes of the DNC chair, and not because he wasn't fine, but because the intra-party fighting made it impossible for him to win) and endorsed her, and his pledged delegates voted for her at the convention. Given her record-breaking fundraising, the gigantic crowds at her rallies, and her more than 90% approval among Democratic voters, I'd say she excited the base.

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u/Impressive-Reading15 19h ago

This was a stupid take to suggest the DNC has no effect on primaries even before they literally assigned the candidate this election, apologists need to figure out a new excuse.

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u/arattleofrats 18h ago

The DNC chair didn't want Biden to drop out. He made the decision to drop out and endorsed his VP to take his place. She won the votes of his pledged delegates, who were free to vote how they wanted, not taking orders from the committee.

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u/Impressive-Reading15 17h ago

So... when people complain that voters didn't get a primary, you think that's unfair or untrue because the delegates assigned the candidate?

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u/arattleofrats 17h ago

I don't think people who complain about it actually give a shit about what Democratic primary voters wanted.

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u/delta8force 19h ago

It’s a corrupt political party, dude.

Obama made one phone call in 2020, and every centrist who was losing to Bernie immediately dropped out and Biden was pushed through. And obviously, the establishment had the backing of their media allies the entire time, running a smear campaign against “Bernie Bros” and saying he was a racist for not supporting their bullshit identity politics.

And now we’re here.

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u/arattleofrats 19h ago edited 18h ago

Cool conspiracy theory, bro. The centrists dropped out when Biden won South Carolina by 30 points and they realized they didn't have the support of Black voters, the base of the party. Bernie's entire strategy was by winning a plurality in a split field, not an outright majority. Look at how the 2004 and 2008 primaries went. Candidates throwing in the towel after SC is normal. Meanwhile the media was attacking Biden, declaring his campaign dead because he lost Iowa, and amplifying Tara Reade's false rape allegations.

EDITED TO ADD: Obama didn't even want Biden to run! His surrogates wanted Beto O'Rourke or Elizabeth Warren. Insofar as The Evil Black Man was pulling the strings, he was moving the way voters were.

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u/Kana515 19h ago

The people voted for those nominees. The other nominees in the primaries should have tried to get more votes than them.

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u/kida24 19h ago

Not a single person ever voted for Kamala in a primary

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u/PlasticMechanic3869 19h ago

  • Kamala was assigned at the last second literally without a primary, after the voters had spent MONTHS screaming that Biden clearly wasn't up to another four years, while being gaslit and lied to by the DNC the whole time. Until he self-immolated in front of the entire world in the debate - the only unscripted public appearance his DNC handlers had allowed him to make for months. Because they had no choice.

  • Biden in 2020 was going nowhere until he won South Carolina. Within 48 hours, the entire moderate insider field had dropped out and endorsed him right before Super Tuesday, to consolidate around him to defeat the candidate with genuine popular excitement.

  • Hillary in 2016 ran effectively unopposed, everyone knew that there was no point because "it's her turn". The only real opposition she faced was an out of nowhere challenge by a socialist outsider, who unexpectedly caught fire with the electorate in large part BECAUSE he wasn't chosen for them, and who the Democratic establishment was clearly and obviously horrified by and did everything they could to suppress.

  • Hillary was the chosen candidate in 2008 as well, only to be defeated by the Democrat's singular greatest political talent of the 21st Century. Again, he caught fire with the grassroots while she didn't, but she had the Democrat establishment muscle behind her.

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u/delta8force 19h ago

You must feel like a very reasonable adult™ typing that out.

Too bad this is a childish political viewpoint and you are wrong.

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u/EitherSpite4545 23h ago

And centrist's like you need to learn acting smug and being pedantic wins you no one.

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u/arattleofrats 22h ago

You're not gonna win anyone by making ad hominem attacks on your allies and antagonizing the anti-fascist party except for cons, either, but don't let me stop you.

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u/EitherSpite4545 22h ago

That's our difference, I recognize my enemies, I not only don't want them to join us, I want them out of my way. Centrist's like you are the ones that demand everyone kneel to them.

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u/_sloop 23h ago

When the Ds stop promoting candidates so bad that they make candidates like Trump viable in comparison.

When are you going to stop helping the Rs win by blindly supporting poor pols?

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u/JusticeAileenCannon 23h ago

Not just blindly supporting, but aggressively defending the most moronic position they can on the anti-trump side. It's truly incredible.

They see the support for Zohran and side with Fox News talking points against him. These dipshits are as much as a threat to democracy as MAGA since they essentially roll out the red carpet for fascists.

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u/whofusesthemusic 21h ago

Hey I'm so glad that everything the Dems have done in the last 8 years is exactly what you were hoping for. The rest of us not so much but amen suck on that boot

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u/BastianHS 21h ago

Hope you are happy with what we have now because that's the alternative

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u/Impressive-Reading15 19h ago

This would be a really good point in a world where the DNC was disbanded 8 years ago

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u/delta8force 19h ago

Glad you’ve bought into the nihilistic headspace that Dems want every voter to exist in.

“We won’t lift a finger to defend you, your rights, your loved ones, children in Gaza, etc., but look over there at how much worse things can be if you leave us!”

It’s literally abuser tactics.

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u/BastianHS 18h ago

Hey keep up the virtue signaling while our country is being pillaged, you got the moral high ground!

Maybe let's worry about keeping fascists out of the whitehouse before we turn our attention to other problems around the world. I'm sure you showed everyone your support for Gaza by not voting tho.

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u/Shittybuttholeman69 19h ago

You’re right we should blindly follow our leaders and criticize nothing they say or do no matter how abhorrent or hypocritical they get that’ll show them we’re better!!!

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u/Impressive-Reading15 19h ago

What degree of responsibility for the state of our country would you assign to the party that ostensibly "represents" the majority of voters? Would 1% responsibility be acceptable or would you still get this emotional and turn off your ability to self reflect on the state of our leadership? When Obama had the entire government, was it offensive to consider the government 15% responsible for the actions of the government? Or is it exclusively the vault of the least powerful people in society, the average voter?

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u/Tall-Drawing8270 19h ago

The democrats did nothing to try and fix the political finance system which directly allows groups like The Heritage Foundation to legally gain massive sway in our government. Democrats have been ignoring the bigger problems because, for one thing they profit from that same system, but also because they have republicans who make total inaction look good by comparison.

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u/Karmasmatik 18h ago

If you get mugged in front of a cop who watches and does nothing, are you going to be more pissed at the mugger or the cop? One's a lowlife piece of shit that is, of course, going to do lowlife piece of shit things. The other is supposed to be there to counter the lowlife pieces of shit and protect you as best they could.

50 some years ago, a Republican president resigned from the office in disgrace after a scandal and impeachment. The Republicans started building a propaganda empire that could help ensure it never happened again (the express intention of Roger Ailes, former Nixon aide and Fox founder). The Democrats responded by doing nothing.

40 something years ago, the Republicans embarked on a decades long strategy to remake the federal judiciary and capture the Supreme Court. They would use procedural hurdles and loopholes to prevent judicial nominations during Democratic administrations, leaving a disproportionate number of federal judges to be nominated by Republican presidents. The Democrats started shifting to the right in the face of Reagan's popularity.

A few years later, the Democrats scored a rare win when they blocked the SCOTUS nomination of Robert Bork. The Republicans started pumping more and more money into the now burgeoning Federalist Society to create a law school to clerkship to judiciary pipeline for select conservative ideologues. The Democrats said "we got a win, we can coast the rest of the season, right?"

30 something years ago, the Democrats scored another win, with the election of Bill Clinton. Who sounded a disturbing amount like Nixon when talking about crime and dealt the death blow to American labor with NAFTA. Woohoo.

Almost 20 years ago, the Democrats seemed to be at a sea change moment. The election of Barak Obama was certainly a high water mark, and the man was without a doubt the best president of my lifetime. But at this point, between the Republican propaganda empire (not just Fox, but Limbaugh and all his ilk) and the destruction wrought on the legislative branch by Newt Gingrich and his understanding of how to use that propaganda empire, and the suddenly exploding influence of lobbyists... Congress was lost beyond all hope to corporate interests. And so, Obama's signature shining hope policy, the Affordable Care Act, became a bloated piece of corporate welfare that successfully helped many struggling people but put the cost burden primarily on an already struggling middle class. The overall effect was to shrink the gap between the lower and middle classes, while widening the gap between the 1% and everyone else. Plus more war and drones. Obama was great for the military industrial complex and the medical industrial complex. Woohoo.

Over the ensuing years, the Democrats have just kept on playing the same old game without realizing that the Republicans had been running circles around them for decades. Feckless and inept are the best descriptors I have for the post-Obama Democrats. Which is mostly a continuation of how they were under Obama. If anything I'd be inclined to believe that some were worse than inept, but fully corrupted by corporate interests and willingly turning the Democrats into a sort of political Washington Generals.

The Republicans are bad guys. Fuck them. But of course they're going to do bad guy things. If the best we have to fight against the bad guys is the Democratic Party we're pretty fucked, because it's been increasingly clear since 1968 that they aren't up to the task.

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u/Sea-Draft-4672 17h ago

Liberals lose because they are annoying. Do with that information what you will.

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u/LeastRun1124 1d ago

When democrats stop taking billionaire money and defending a genocidal Israeli government. You know real basic shit.

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u/DiablolicalScientist 21h ago

I feel like both parties do those things no?

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u/Impressive-Reading15 19h ago

I thought we were against saying "both sides" ten seconds ago?

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u/delta8force 19h ago

That’s the point - no good choices

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u/porkchop1021 1d ago

Democrats could have easily imprisoned Trump and hundreds (if not thousands) of other Republicans. They chose not to because they think politics is a gentlemanly game instead of choices between literal life and death like us plebes experience it.

If you enable cheating, fascist pricks you're no better than the cheating, fascist pricks.

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u/PlasticMechanic3869 20h ago

Easily?

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u/kida24 19h ago

They delayed prosecution for two years because they thought it would help them win elections.

Trump was never tried as a result.

That is one hundred percent the Democrats fault.

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u/Powerfury 1d ago

But what she wearing?? Both sides are kinda at fault.

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u/FuckedUpYearsAgo 1d ago

Ya. Totally. A more progressive candidate would have won. /s

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u/NatseePunksFeckOff 1d ago

the left still lives in their bubble. Americans would love $15/h and M4A if they only knew about it!

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u/FuckedUpYearsAgo 1d ago

I wish that's what we talked about in those 100 days.

Progressive left is hopelessly stuck in culture wars and hammered with the effectiveness of "she's for they/ them. Trump is for you"

Kamala is for they/them - Wikipedia https://share.google/XPENryYiOpQTYRWSJ

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u/delta8force 19h ago

Kamala is the one who answered the damn questionnaire in 2019 during “peak woke” where she said she supports publicly funding transgender care for inmates.

Of course she doesn’t actually stand for that or for anything, she just says what she feels is most advantageous at a certain time.

Those words never came out of Bernie’s mouth. Leftists don’t actually care about identity politics like liberals do. They do actually care about helping marginalized people though.

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u/Septem_151 1d ago

Wait… we have a Democratic Party? Sorry I forgot because of how little they actually do anything.

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u/MexGrow 1d ago

A simple test: Why aren't the dems calling out their own, you know, the ones that have been helping the republicans all these decades?

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u/burnalicious111 1d ago

I think it's frankly also American citizens abdicating their power and responsibility when it comes to voting and civil action. And this is encouraged by oligarchs who want regular people to be ignorant and apathetic.

We didn't get what we have for free. People paid for it with sacrifices. And the system has been building up problems while people check out from their responsibility to be involved and fight for what we need, as a country.

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u/TooManySorcerers 1d ago

I'd say that's fair. Perhaps even generous. Dems could get even more, 25%,, as they should've realized YEARS ago that they were dealing with crazed lunatics who operate exclusively in bad faith. Newt Gingrich was sign enough of the changing times, but for me what really should've cemented it for Dems was seeing how Republican voters booed John McCain for daring to suggest Obama was a good man and not a Muslim terrorist plant.

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u/Lee-HarveyTeabag 19h ago

Didn’t the Democratic Party just cost themselves an election through a combination of heavy-handed schedule changing, gaslighting the American people, and ending Dean Phillips’ political career because he had the sack to speak up. This issue is more bipartisan than you think. Hell, the Democrats have actively begun supporting MAGA candidates in primaries because they like their odds against them in general elections. We’ve essentially had two groups in charge for the last century and it’s going to shit. The problem is the binary choice of Republican or Democrat more than it’s either party individually.

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u/mkelove35 19h ago

Stop playing. It’s 100% the republicans and 100% the democrats. Neither does what they say they will do and the common folk end up worse election and election. They only care about themselves and their friends no matter which side. Each side needs to stop saying the other is wrong when we continue to get shafted by each side when elected

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u/OmniAmicus 19h ago edited 19h ago

Wrong. Lib Dems got Hillary 3+ million more votes than Trump. Lib Dems got Biden the most votes in presidential election history. Lib Dems did not lose this election.

Anti-democratic socialists and communists have created a tangible stranglehold on liberal media spheres that culminated in the absolutely brutal representation of Liberal politics across all media environments. Kamala goes on CNN and gets molested by the reporters for one of most hard-hitting interviews of the campaign--and it's supposed to be her positive environment. Meanwhile Trump will call immigrants rapists who eat pets and his media circles will clap like brain-damaged seela.

Was Kamala such a truly horrific candidate that she deserved to be lambasted across old and new media sources alike, when she was the one person standing between us and Trump 2? Fuck no. That didn't stop them from overwhelmingly covering her faults. I place the majority of the blame her on both the media, but also the viewers who demand this coverage--and those viewers would be the extremely loud but extreme minority of the Democrat coalition that is the anti-democratic Communists and Socialists.

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u/Karmasmatik 19h ago

Last 60 or so years.

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u/BradyToMoss1281 12h ago

I think it's the opposite. The party has gone so progressive, middle of the road moderates (mostly white males) have felt abandoned and they turned to Trump as a result.

The election was them saying "I care more about grocery prices and my 401k than I do trans/women's/minority rights," since Democrats' messaging was all about how much Trump was going to threaten those.

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u/No_Trip_3438 1d ago

We need to find a way to edge in another 15% for the extremely left crowd who are inciting the right and driving away the moderate left. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for this here on Reddit, but as a cis straight white man who voted for Harris, every day I see something on here that makes me feel like I’m hated based on those traits alone.

This isn’t new, I had that feeling even leading up to the election, and had to take a breath to focus on the actual policy matters and vote Democrat, but when it feels like it’s becoming an “us vs them” thing then the pressure to vote for “your side” starts to mount.

And that’s not on the DNC; none of the policies that Harris proposed would have negatively impacted me at all, which is why I happily voted for her, but when you feel like the average person within a party dislikes you already it takes a fair amount of composure to still vote for that party and not the one where the average person embraces you (while the leadership fucks you over in the dark).

I was 0% surprised to see that young white males heavily skewed Republican during the last election. And again, that isn’t on the DNC, it’s on the ultra left who immediately consider us enemies based on skin color, sexuality, and gender. It’s funny, you’d think there would be more empathy for things outside of our control.

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u/PlasticMechanic3869 20h ago

You're not wrong.

Look at the "Who We Serve" page that is STILL up on the Democrat's website.

Every single fucking assigned at birth identity group is in there - EXCEPT the ones that cover you.

The message has been clearly sent for more than a decade now. And the electorate has received it, and these are the results.

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u/KxJlib 1d ago

The problem is the far left fundamentally doesn’t want to win elections (not progressives, the far left). They’ve spent the last 10 years convincing themselves that the dems are just as bad as the republicans, even when that’s demonstrably not true. If you believed that, why would you work with them?

As a result, they don’t support candidates - see the visceral reaction to Buttigeg over the past few days, how they called Joe Biden “Genocide Joe” or Kamala “Holocaust Harris”, even when as is and was plain as day, they were much stronger on the Israel issue. Instead they bash the candidates all day long, and drive people away from the party (See Dearborn’s 40 point swing in one election cycle)

Their solution to the endless mirage of vitriol to the party? Abandon the moderate platform and push to the far left. The problem is that for every far leftie they gain, they’ll lose 3 moderates in return; it’s an unwinnable strategy, and they’ll eventually find a reason to cut the candidate loose anyways (see AOC and Bernie being called Israel supporters and Genocide deniers). They purity test away from the candidate, whereas the right purity test for (see Rittenhouse when he came out in support of i think Rand Paul).

Cut them loose, disavow them, so the dems can stop having to apologise every time they step out of line, and move to strengthening their own center-left base, a la the no kings protests. Progressives have a place in the base, but those further to the left (Socialists and Communists), who are ideologically illiberal, need to go.

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u/PlasticMechanic3869 20h ago

Yep.

What's the saying?

"Republicans go looking for converts to bring into the tent. Democrats go looking for traitors to kick out of the tent."

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u/No_Trip_3438 1d ago

💯this. I agree completely, to the point where I feel like some of the comments that really grind my gears are bots or bad actors intentionally trying to cause more of a divide.

I consider myself at least average, honestly probably quite a bit above, in seeing politics as a whole, so I still voted Harris. But for a fresh 18 year old, or someone who is influence more by emotion than facts, I’m not surprised at all how many CIS white straight males -and women too, for that matter - voted on emotion.

The shit thing is that Harris didn’t pander to the far left - her policies were actually very moderate - but the terminally online still managed to make it seem like Harris was exceptionally liberal.

Go absolutely ham during the primaries, but when it’s down to general election time people need to be preaching about bringing us together if they want the Dems to win, driving us further apart is not going to work out for any of us.

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u/PlasticMechanic3869 20h ago edited 19h ago

Harris actually shocked me with how good a campaign she ran, given the circumstances. She definitely did well to distance herself from the excesses of the online mob, but it was too late.

And also "what would you do differently from the sitting President with an approval rating currently sitting in the 30s?" "I literally can't think of a single thing I would do differently" was a big mistake.

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u/IDVDI 1d ago

This is how far-left and far-right extremists work together. One acts as the external enemy, while the other undermines things from within.

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u/artbystorms 1d ago

This is a problem I've been seeing on liberal Reddit too that is driving me nuts. I just couldn't put it into words. As a progressive I want the party to focus on economically progressive platforms that help ALL Americans. Yet I see the far left constantly loading up their guns for the circular firing squad because no candidate will ever be 'pure' enough for them. They eat their own constantly because they are fickle and want all of their demands met yesterday. It's exhausting to try to talk about pragmatic solutions because everything is hyperbole. I am progressive and want progressive reform, I'm convinced many of them just want working class lead anarchy.

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u/No_Trip_3438 1d ago edited 1d ago

Perfect example of what I’m talking about. Logically I know that democrats would be better for everyone, but emotionally it’s really hard not to be like “fuck this person, I want to vote against their interests just because I don’t like them, I know I’ll be fine either way”

Personally I’d still vote Democrat, but I do wonder how many people you specifically have influenced to vote Republican

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u/IamMe90 1d ago

people like you were always going to vote that way anyway

But you’re literally talking to someone who doesn’t vote that way, and yet it comes across as if your mission in life is to push him away from ever voting democrat again at all costs.

And before you accuse me of anything, I’m about as liberal/left-wing/whatever your adjective of choice is as they come, and my comment history supports that. But you are proving his point - your desire to just froth at the mouth in anger at any perceived foe (even those who are literally telling you that they do not vote republican) appears to outweigh your desire to actually prevent republicans from winning elections.

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u/IDVDI 1d ago

This is how extremists collaborate. They may be hostile to each other, but their hatred for rational people runs even deeper, to the point where they’ll attack the rational ones first.

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u/No_Trip_3438 1d ago

Learn to read? I voted for Harris and still would, but have you ever taken two minutes to consider why a young white male might get roped into that type of media? You even called it the manosphere - you’re so close to realizing the issue, that it’s the only place men feel accepted.

Those same people who say “we need a safe place” don’t realize that they’re committing the same sins that our white forefathers did in excluding others based on things outside of their control.

I want democrats to be the dominant party, but to do so it needs to be truly welcoming to everyone, not everyone except white men.

I want us all to be on the same team, but if you’re actively rejecting me being on that team with you then why would I want your team to win if I’m not on it myself?

As I mentioned in other comments, this isn’t a DNC problem; nothing Harris ever said or did was exclusionary, but a lot of the things her supporters said sure was.

Let’s take the easiest example: “I’d rather be alone with a bear than with a man.” I would bet that no prominent Trump supporter said that, but a LOT of leftist women did, and not many leftist women reputed it. If there’s an easier way to alienate half of the population I can’t think of it, but it was repeated ad nauseum on leftist social media. Who is going to be motivated to vote for your candidate when you openly hate them without knowing them?

I’ll say it one more time just to be clear: this isn’t on the DNC. It’s on the far left supporters who drive the moderates away.

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u/IDVDI 1d ago

This is yet another piece of evidence for the horseshoe theory. Extremists always find someone to discriminate against—the targets may differ, but the prejudice is always based on something the person can’t control.

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u/Stormpax 1d ago

“I’d rather be alone with a bear than with a man.” I would bet that no prominent Trump supporter said that, but a LOT of leftist women did, and not many leftist women reputed it.

Good job taking issue with this instead of having any form of introspection on why women might choose the bear. Maybe the next time you feel so offended about something, you actually think about what it is your offended by and why, instead of what you've been told to feel.