• @UsernameHere
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    The right won. They had more votes because many who voted democrat in 2020 voted red. How does going further left change that outcome?

    If voters wanted politicians that are further left then wouldn’t they have voted for the politician that is furthest left?

    I think most people just voted republican because they experienced inflation under Biden and dont understand why.

    • @Dkarma
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      203 months ago

      This is factually false. Trump received no more vote really than he did the last 2 times. Dem voters simply stayed home.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 months ago

      It’s not soorts teams. Going further left means reaching rural people and poor people. A lot of the working class just isn’t aware of what left and right mean. If the left let’s republican dictate who is taking those ppl’s side this is how it’s auways gonna end. Posh elitism has failed yet again

      • @UsernameHere
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        113 months ago

        There was an election between an independent union leader and a career politician in Nebraska and the career politician won by a landslide. How do you explain that?

        • @[email protected]
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          83 months ago

          One example does not a rule make, and in the US electoral system money (and the party affiliations that bring it) speaks loudest of all. Maybe going further left wouldn’t work, but going further right certainly hasn’t. When Harris first emerged as the candidate she had such a swell of support, as she moved further right she lost it.

          • @UsernameHere
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            63 months ago

            Voters are saying it is because of inflation. Not because she didn’t go further left.

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              Sure, but if she had spent her few months promising to tax the shit out of Elon Musk and other billionaires I bet people would have been more excited and actually showed up to vote than when she promised to keep the course and also appoint a Republican

              • @UsernameHere
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                03 months ago

                Harris literally campaigned with a promise to tax the billionaires more.

                Billionaires countered her campaign by doing things like literally buying votes.

                Now people on lemmy are pretending she never promised to tax billionaires more.

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                  33 months ago

                  Sorry, I meant she should have been Bernie-style grandstanding about it and hammering it home and making it a core part of her campaign more than it not being in her plans at all. I feel like she started with that kind of message and was doing well and ended with the Cheneys like me and ill put a Republican in my cabinet and lost

                  • @UsernameHere
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                    The polls show most voters were motivated by inflation and thought democrats were to blame. Republicans and the billionaire class convinced enough voters that increasing taxes on billionaires would make it worse.

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                  thats nice, did you figure out how that would translates to americans affording a roof, eggs, and milk?

                  • @UsernameHere
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                    13 months ago

                    Ya it’s called common sense. See our government expenses are paid with taxes so if billionaires pay less taxes the rest of us pay more so we have less money for a roof, eggs and milk.

                    If we tax billionaires for their fair share then we pay less taxes and have more money.

                    I guess common sense isn’t so common.

            • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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              And non-voters don’t get to have an opinion or seat at the adults table because they enabled fascism.

          • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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            33 months ago

            One example does not a rule make

            Missouri voted to overturn abortion ban and voted for republicans.

            Florida nearly voted for abortion ban and voted for republicans.

            Americans have shown they want change but they also don’t understand how that can be achieved.

            Apparently Biden/Harris chose not to push ‘make things better’ magical button in the Oval Office so they’re getting the boot and the guy who shat the bed earlier is now getting the opportunity to burn the house down.

          • @UsernameHere
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            113 months ago

            Neither is the entirety of America.

      • @UsernameHere
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        93 months ago

        He hasnt been able to win outside of Vermont. Even when he lost the primaries he it was because he didn’t have enough votes.

        • @Dkarma
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          83 months ago

          Well he did until the DNC scuttled his momentum with spoilers like Clinton and biden

          • @UsernameHere
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            He didn’t have enough votes before the DNC got involved.

            • @njm1314
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              It’s also interesting that the argument here is that the only way Bernie would have had a chance as if there were enough candidates to dilute the vote. But in a straight up head to head contest he couldn’t win. Which is what happened. When the choice came down between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden the latter got more votes. That’s not a pro Bernie argument. Yet we see it all the time.

              • @[email protected]
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                03 months ago

                wtf are you on about. It was never bernie vs joe. it was bernie vs warren vs joe. literally all the candidates joe adjacent dropped out for cabinet positions and endorsed him. then the bernie / warren votes were split.