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[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

She did try her darnedest too, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

You had me at white man

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

Another one of her messaging issues was that she has a vagina.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

I'm fairly certain that a transwoman would have done even worse in polls. It does make me wonder how a transman would fare, though.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I understand the poster may be very emotional because of the election. Yet, This strikes me as incredibly reductive.

I think she lost because, she represents the continuation of the current administration. People want to break from the status quo, even if that means harming society to do it.

The dems need a left wing populist, asap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

I keep hearing this 'status quo' excuse but no one ever explains what the fuck that's supposed to even mean.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Too little too late. If the GOP sees a left wing populist emerge they will use the all three branches of government to crush them and entrenched themselves further.

This was checkmate friends. Violent revolution is the only option left. It's probably going to take 20-40 years before everyone gets there but luckily for us climate change will have already taken root and we just get to burn.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

Literally all you post is political rage-bait. How is the weather in Russia these days comrade?

This kind of shit is exactly what Russia wants. Divide the US, push violence, destabilize the country. We have paths forward that do not involve violence. Now is the time to push for ranked choice voting to allow 3rd party candidates a real chance. The DNC has been out of touch for years, and ranked choice voting will allow us to side step them and choose a candidate with a real chance.

Start small and local. Connect with your local representatives. Have a conversation about ranked choice voting. Come up with a plan that we can achieve together to make this a reality.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

You don't get it. The Russians are getting what they want because the DNC has done nothing to stop it. You can keep fighting uphill and I'll continue to lend my vote but you get nothing else. Sorry.

If you want my suggestion don't put your political capital into the DNC. They dont know how to spend it. Form a new party and make them suffer. Tea partiers did it and reshaped the GOP. You won't have the funding of right wing billionaires at first but if you get enough momentum they will be pouring in to try and shape things.

It's all for naught though, once you start getting cheated out of every victory you fight for you'll start sharpening the knife too.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (33 children)

Republicans have a vision. Democrats have a list of policy proposals. Average people can grok the vision but since they read at a 6th grade level they don't grok the policy proposals.

Democrats need to stop acting like nerds if they want more people to like them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There was an era where the nerds placed up a facade to give the illusion of meritocracy and measured governance. Unfortunately that just drove a wedge between people and the "ruling class." When it came out that bill was getting blowies in the oval office people's brains broke and the facade was forever tarnished. Today, democrats still hide behind it and pretend like we don't know they piss and shit like everyone else. The Republicans decided to erect a monument to trump their lord and savior, the only thing keeping them from being a foot note in the history books.

We need to look to our founders. Flawed in every way possible they did have one idea that we should still cherish. They believed in an america they could make by their own hands. They did, it sucked, it was also amazing somehow. We should be like them but be just as kind to our future as we are to the present.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But I was told it was just that our policy proposals weren't left enough?

Unironically, you're right. Most voters don't vote based on any kind of coherent ideology. They vote on feels.

God help us all.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (7 children)

If the policy proposals were far left enough they'd start to look a helluva lot more like a vision.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I want a country where everyone pays less for healthcare. If it can be done for seniors, why not everyone else?

I want a country where everyone's private medical decisions remain between them and their doctor, without being cleared by your local, state, or federal representative or by a judge.

I want a country where everyone who works, pays taxes, and does not commit violent crime or property theft can stay and keep working without having to look over their shoulder.

I want a country where if you work full time, you can afford your rent/mortgage, put food on the table, start a family, and still be able to retire.

There's a vision. Apparently all of these things have become radically progressive leftist positions and are attacked as such by the media and conservatives alike.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The problem is the Democrats are scared to push back hard, they try to move to the right to capture moderate voters, and then lose 10x as many voters to the left who don't care enough to vote because the Democrats are trying to make concessions with absolute lunatics.

The DNC seems like it just doesn't have a spine. Doesn't matter now, it's all fucked and it's too late.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

She didn't? I believe that's exactly what she came across as when she said she wouldn't do anything different if she were to call the shots instead of Biden and also reminded everyone she signed off on most of his decisions. Sure, she lost votes because of sexism as well, but instead of fresh air she chose to bring stale coffin smell to the fart battle and lost to the stink Trump was all too happy to discharge. And that coffin did smell of a old white dude, let me tell you.

That being said, for such a gigantic loss against someone as obnoxious as Trump, there had to be a lot of factors in play. Sexism and stagnation of the party being just a tip of the iceberg.

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