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Yes, cover for the democratic establishment to run another doomed to fail candidate. Hell of a job you are doing here. I won't further cover your argument as it doesn't dignify a response to those of us in reality.
So what you're saying is that the country collectively decided Trump was more promising than Harris?
And you've found it's someone else's fault, so now you don't have to do anything but sit in the mess?
Good for you.
Now, pardon us as we try to do something about it.
Yes. That is exactly what happened. For millions of Americans, Trump's election was objectively the more promising option. You need to understand this, truly get it in your heart, if you want any chance of actually combating it.
There are tens of millions of Americans are trapped for life in subsistence wage slavery. Did Trump care about them? No. But what he did offer was a reshuffling of the deck. He offered to turn over the apple cart, to flip the board game over. That's at least what he promised.
The thing about completely blowing up the old order is that everything reshuffles. Some old winners become losers, and some old losers become winners. If you blow up the existing federal government, expel millions of immigrants, and reshuffle the whole economy, everyone's fortunes have the potential to change.
What did Kamala really offer those tens of millions trapped in wage slavery? Absolutely nothing. A vote for Kamala was a vote for more wage slavery. Did Trump actually offer anything material to directly help people in these dire straits? No. But he did offer a reshuffling of the deck. And for millions, a slim chance through chaos is better than no chance through order. Their vote was simply a spin on the roulette wheel.
And don't forget, that for millions of white working class Americans, Trump's immigration policies are a form of class solidarity. They're an evil form of class solidarity, but they are a form of solidarity. Expelling millions of immigrants from the country will drastically lower the supply of working class labor. For the native-born working class, this inevitably raises wages and standards of living. If you're a native born white working class person working in an industry with a high share of immigrant labor, expelling all the immigrants means your skills are now in extremely high demand. And ICE isn't hassling people like you unless you show up to a protest.
Some people voted for Trump because they're so desperate that any chance of change is appealing. Some did so out of a cynical desire to advance the economic prospects of the native-born population. But don't for a second pretend that all the people voting for Trump did so because they're just irrational, crazy, or stupid. For millions of people, voting for Trump was or seemed like a quite rational thing to do. If you can't understand why people voted for Trump, you have no hope of actually combating Trumpism.
Well put.
I guess this is also why sympathies from wronged friends and allies are running dry.
Unfortunately, I'm of the sort who doesn't believe that flipping the table will be to the gain to anyone but those with the preparation and resources to grab what they may (which is what they're doing)
The divide is too deep, and those people too greedy to do anything but provide for their own. The downtrodden won't come out better from this, either we stop them, or we wait for the next revolution where people will be even more desperate.
The latter leads to more suffering, more death and more blood, if history is any guide.
What they're saying is that the DNC keeps picking such terrible candidates that somehow come off as even less appealing than a child molester with dozens of felony convictions.
No. People are just retarded.
We knew harris could not win, and we fielded her anyway. I knew that, and I'm the asshole here? Seriously, fuck all the way off, you are the problem, and you deserve everything.
Your username does check out though!