Because you now did it to yourself.

  • Hello_there
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    5924 hours ago

    Don’t worry guys. We’ll run another centrist in 2028 too. But this time it’ll work.

    • Zier
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      3522 hours ago

      LOL. Voting in the USA is over. There will be no future elections. And I hope you like church.

    • Skeezix
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      3824 hours ago

      Being a centrist is not Harris’ problem. Harris’ problem was being non-white and a woman in a nation of fickle uninformed voters.

      • @[email protected]
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        3324 hours ago

        Sure, that didn’t help, but she also was a “more of the same” candidate (she’s rhe current VP!)

        As much as I wanted her to win, she was always a stupid choice in at a time where voters can essentially all agree on one thing: they want change.

        Status quo politics is dead, the dems just haven’t realized it yet. As braindead as Trump and a most of his policies are, people like that he doesn’t give a shit about disrupting things to achieve his goals.

        • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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          418 hours ago

          The problem is having a contested convention would have been just as bad. We all know what happened with McGovern in '72. The only chance was immediately unifying behind someone else and Harris was the only one people could agree on.

          The main stupid decision was Biden not sticking to his word and choosing to run again despite his obvious unpopularity and age.

        • Skeezix
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          1223 hours ago

          yes, his goals.

          • @[email protected]
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            623 hours ago

            You’re right, I agree with you and I think his goals are both damaging and stupid… but at the end of the day his strategy is winning and we will obviously have to adapt to beat it.

            • @Ensign_Crab
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              622 hours ago

              we will obviously have to adapt

              Democrats would rather lose and blame the left.

            • Skeezix
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              022 hours ago

              We ran a centrist in 2020 and it worked.

              • @[email protected]
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                -122 hours ago

                The Dems should definitely move more central on social issues, as the US election system has a huge built in rural bias.

                Then focus on more broad-reaching progressive economic topics. Less focus on legislation targeting specific marginalized groups and more on policies which would impact everyone directly. As a potential example, Universal Basic Income (“Freedom Bonus” or whatever it was called) was one such policy which was floated a couple elections ago.

              • NoneOfUrBusiness
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                022 hours ago

                Biden wasn’t really a centrist in the same way Harris was. Biden ran on a progressive-ish platform, and mostly backed it up with action. He sure as hell didn’t run on fracking and locking up immigrants like Harris is.

                • @TrickDacy
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                  022 hours ago

                  … What the fuck are you talking about

                  The difference is she is a woman. Denying it won’t change a fucking thing.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    318 hours ago

                    Oh honey. Its not that. Some of it is that… But 20 million votes are missing from the left; its not because shes a woman that they didnt vote.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        324 hours ago

        Okay that’s just copium, but it’s jot because she was a centrist either. Harris wasn’t even trying to campaign competently or listen to her constituency; ultimately that’s what did her in.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          122 hours ago

          Harris wasn’t even trying to campaign competently or listen to her constituency

          Sounds exactly like a centrist to me.

    • @positiveWHAT
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      923 hours ago

      Oh, you think Trump won’t break the barriers and sit for life?

      • @[email protected]
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        317 hours ago

        Look at the guy. He’s going to die before the end of the term and Vance will take over. That’s when the real fun begins.

      • @[email protected]
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        622 hours ago

        statistically, if he wins, he’s likely to sit for life even if he doesn’t cancel future elections (or however he plans to suppress democracy), because, you see, he is very old and likely to die soon (but probably not soon enough for my taste).

      • @spamfajitas
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        122 hours ago

        Based on how he did with his speech to his supporters, I don’t think that’ll be for very long…

    • @Ensign_Crab
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      722 hours ago

      Clearly the problem is that she didn’t move far enough to the right. She only got 2 Cheneys.

      • @TrickDacy
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        022 hours ago

        I know you’re trying to be an asshole but looking at the election results that apparently actually was the issue. Our electorate wants a right wing fascist

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          221 hours ago

          God damn, don’t you fucking get it? Fascists are NEVER going to accept that a Democrat is one of them. Fascists aren’t going to vote for you just because you adopt their policies and throw the right vulnerable populations under the bus. It doesn’t matter how far to the right the party moves, fascists will never buy it.

          But the left sure as hell will notice who you want to be besties with and who you take for granted.

          Moving to the right has failed. Now do the only thing centrists do besides simp for Republicans and become abusive.

          • @TrickDacy
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            -319 hours ago

            I didn’t suggest we actually do it.

            • @[email protected]
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              Yes, you did. And clearly you didnt look at the results. They say nothing about right wing policies trump was capped out and harris didnt have a platform to bring out her base. 20 million of them. Instead she shit on arabs, students, working class, lgbt+. She lost a huge upswing in support by tying herself to biden instrad of throwing him under the bus like she should have.

              The writing was on the wall in 2020 when we argued about whether biden really committed to a single term.

              We warned you, we pleaded with you, we scolded you that this would happen. But what do we know, we’re just russian trolls.

    • @Snowclone
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      322 hours ago

      I hope in the last leg of their campaign they dig up Nixon’s bones and get a endorsement from him to try and draw in conservatives that don’t care one bit about Nixon, and alternate and demotivate their actual base of voters!