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I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost | Oliver Hall
(www.theguardian.com)
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Just at the shop work at most citizens make below $15 an hour even trades jobs
Not just any fucking reason
Most US citizens are struggling with overpriced housing, sky high taxes, ginourmous energy costs, inflatated food costs, and all on below living wages
Fuck the Democrats and the Republicans both for exploiting the citizens
I'm glad the enlightened centrist take is always here to offer the right answers.
Just see the US underneath on the daily when on the job
The real US that is hidden beneath all the media sprinkles and the propaganda icing
Gets worse every election no matter which "party" "wins"
Welp it's about to get a WHOLE LOT worse. America is finished. Experiment over.
One party gets into power and throws shit everywhere. The other party gets into power and cleans as much shit as they can, but it's on the ceiling and seeping into the walls. They never get all of it. Often they only get a small amount of it. It's never the shit thrower's fault though. Both parties are covered in shit.
You may find it an absurd opinion, but I'd say it's exactly why the Democrats can't help but grab defeat from the jaws of victory.
They're simply bad at showing off the good that they do and they spend their campaign time courting some mythical moderate Republican voting base that wouldn't vote for them anyway by moving further and further right, disenfranchising their voting base. Who they then blame for their loss. Leftists don't like voting for the lesser of two evils and vote with their heart, while Republicans vote for the nominee, regardless of their positions or values. And the stats show that the Democrats failed to motivate people to get out and vote. Trump actually lost 2 million votes compared to 2020. If there's still elections in 2028, we'll see a resurgence in votes for the Democrat candidate after 4 more years of this monstrosity, but people have forgotten just how bad it really was.
The economy does better under Democratic presidents. That's a verifiable fact. Biden added 500,000 jobs to the economy and brought inflation down, started student loan forgiveness programs, and all kinds of other things. But the Dems didn't talk about that, and the media sure as hell wasn't when going to when they could blast Trump's absurd claims instead. And when we did hear about it, it was through the lens of the economy as a whole, not what you average American experiences day to day. Inflation is down, but prices aren't, and wages haven't kept up in decades. According to the IRS, 51% of Americans made $15k or less in 2021.
So when Trump says he's gonna change things, and Harris looks like it's gonna be more of the same (no matter how much hogwash Trump's claims are and things are only going to get worse), it's gonna do nothing to alleviate the grievances leftists have had with the Biden administration on all sorts of things like the genocide in Palestine. They've heard the "vote for me or it's the end of democracy!" song and dance too many times while seemingly getting nothing out of it.
Dems and Reps are both corporatists (though you could argue Reps are moving towards some neo-feudalism) neither is willing to severely curtail the big money interests. I think you're right that people are genuinely hurting and anxious. People are also probably sexist and racist. Harris had a hell of a lot of disadvantages to overcome in the president's race and she didn't.
Mostly though, reality doesn't matter anymore for probably a supermajority because people are so checked out. Just vibes - and the vibes are bad
Here's why we know this is bullshit. Reps keeping cutting corporate taxes. Biden raised corporate taxes. Harris was going to raise them more.
Saying someone is a 'corporatist' is a meaningless generality. Focusing on tax rates always provides crystal clarity on whether the label is real or not. Cutting their taxes is the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd top priority of corporations. If they cannot get a politician to do that, they don't control that politician.