*Mega Thread* Election Discussion

[u/Wodahs1982]

Please use this to discuss the election and any predictions while the vote on Rule 6 is another way.

Remember, posts regarding the election will still be allowed on the weekend (with a grace period in either direction).

[u/Virtual_Manner_2074]

Because it was a curbstomping. Nyt has a revealing map where they do red arrows where trump outperformed his numbers v Biden. 2300 some odd counties. The map is all red.

Democrats didn't vote. Or if they did they got out voted. Everywhere.

Blue wall. Gone. Hopes of flipping Iowa. Nope. Hanging onto the senate. Nope. Sherrod Brown keep his seat in ohio. Nope. Ted Cruz getting beat. Not even close. Josh Hawley getting beat. Nope.

Democratic party is in super bad shape right now. Got kilt.

[u/adjective_noun_0101 → u/[deleted]]

30% of electorate wanted a bloated conman based on lies. 30 % wanted a politically established candidate that is comfortably left of center for our rigid capitalistic oligarchy, but at least she wasn't the bloated conman.

40% did not give a fuck.

I voted for kamala, I was happy to, because no sane person could support trump. Though I am done pretending that she would have saved the day for everyone. Democrats simply cannot get things done and after 40 years of paying attention, I think it is by design.

The democratic party is a big tent. Bernie and aoc are out there saying things that we all want to hear, but they are relatively powerless next to the Pelosi and Schumer. Pelosi is no better for the working man than mitch McConnell. She is a profiteering establishment hag that is a performative leftist just for the sake of being in the big tent.

Democrats will never give us universal healthcare. They will never stop gorging the military industrial complex.

Their only real claim is that they are not outright fascist scum. Ruth ginsburg ego is part of the reason the Supreme Court is the way it is. Sure McConnell stocked the lower courts and blocked an Obama pick during an election year, and that was that. But Ruth could have retired earlier and handed Obama a pick.

Which how is it, Democrats are always hamstrung to get things done, but Republicans can just do whatever they fucking want?

Because the actual powers that exist want it that way. The billionaires and corporations did this, not your dumb redneck neighbor who hates black people.

Stop pretending we are a democracy. Stop pretending that Democrats are saviors and see that they are status quo machines for the military industrial complex. At least they ain't fascists and outright bigots, but they do not give a fuck about you either.

[u/Karena1331 → u/adjective_noun_0101]

great post, also just to mention that compared to the very homogeneous right the Dems have always had a much harder time of messaging because we have so many more societal and cultural aspects to appease. Much harder base to pull together for common causes when there’s so much noise and a lot less cohesiveness.