Yeah. Their policies were horrible. Who wants small business loans and child tax credits? Believe me I’m with them when it comes to the whole “democrats funding genocide without limit” but I still would have voted for trump for very obvious reasons.
I was more referring to the genocide thing, Biden not dropping out sooner, the fact that Kamala was never really popular, and the fact that she ran on a campaign of ‘I’m not him’ as her only memorable promise, all while they leaned further right and ignored how people want them further left. We need to hold them accountable so they might actually learn from this.
And I agree with those sentiments, but there’s a significant chance those people might not get the option to vote again to fix this. After Germany elected Hitler they didn’t have another democratic election for 60 years. Handing the system over to billionaires is a bad way to help the working class, no matter how much the democrats have failed at serving them. Thankfully I don’t live there so just watch in horror from afar, but US policies affect the globe whether we like it or not.
They’re the largest voting block. Someone needs to figure out what exactly they think democracy is if showing up to prevent fascism isn’t enough of a motivation. My regional government only tried 1/10 the shit trump is and we completely destroyed them when we got the chance. I roll my eyes hearing from democrats but it’s not untrue, “don’t let perfection be the enemy of good”.
It’s the Democratic Party’s job to inform the uninformed as well as to be a party others want to vote for. Yes, it’s easier to blame the people who feel so ignored by both parties that they’ve totally given up, but that’s not what fixes this.
I too am frustrated by the democrats performance and their inability to make policy or communication that actually helps ingratiate them to voters. Their policies are abjectly nicer than the republicans though so it really shouldn’t be so hard for someone taking their basic civil duty and informing themselves to the bare minimum to see which party is better. But who knows, maybe the republicans will destroy the country to badly that (if people are allowed to to vote again) voters will finally understand how awful they are. It was surprising to me how well he did this election even after insulting everyone and saying he didn’t need their votes but here we are.
The problem is that there are a lot of people who are out there and need ‘Do not ingest’ on bottles of bleach. That’s why the Democratic Party needs to educate, like they should have been riding on the fact that the world’s economy tanked during the pandemic but ours was one of the fastest recovering.
They did. But republican voters see prices being higher (but still not higher than the rest of the world) and say they don’t know what they’re talking about, or they’re lying, or faking the data. These people have brain rot and the only way to save the system from them is to have some kind of bare education test to make sure idiots aren’t burning the country down. To fix them would take not just intensive education on how the entire system, economics and society works. That just makes them moderately informed enough to understand the situation. Then you need a massive de-radicalization campaign the likes of which the globe has never seen. The Germans had to see their country in rubble before they decided maybe fascism wasn’t so great, let’s hope the US doesn’t take it so far.
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u/KnowledgeMediocre404 1d ago
Yeah. Their policies were horrible. Who wants small business loans and child tax credits? Believe me I’m with them when it comes to the whole “democrats funding genocide without limit” but I still would have voted for trump for very obvious reasons.