• @PugJesus
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    451 month ago

    People were really fired up for the generic democrat against Trump. People were not fired up for the geriatric democrat that actually was running.

    Harris was a geriatric?

    • @dhork
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      111 month ago

      Many people drew a direct line between Biden’s weaknesses and the Harris campaign, and Harris didn’t really try that hard to differentiate the two. She might have if there was an actual primary, but we’ll never know.

      • @SoftestSapphic
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        121 month ago

        “People including myself saw what we wanted to see despite efforts to appeal to us”

        FTFY

        • @randon31415
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          51 month ago

          What efforts? “Not Trump” was factually “Not enough”. Wish it was, but unless you deny the electoral results, Harris need something other than “Not Trump” to win.

          • @SoftestSapphic
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            81 month ago

            Controversial I know, but I think saying “hey we’re not going to recklessly break the country and sell off the peices to our rich friends” does make you better than the person who will just break stuff.

            Either way the protest votes still had 0 effect on the results of the election.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          He ran twice and lost twice. Average democrats are too indoctrinated and don’t want radical things like education or healthcare, let alone Republicans from the church of fox.

          • @[email protected]
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            1 month ago

            The DNC admitted that they threw it to Hillary the first time. And the second time they had to beg Biden out of retirement to find an alternative to Bernie. It’s infuriating, Bernie has never been given a real chance.

            • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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              11 month ago

              He was given a chance in 2020 and lost by a pretty large margin. I voted for him twice. The reality is progressives are not popular, even within the Democratic party. If we want that to change, we need to first convince people from the bottom up instead of expecting some kind of top down change.

            • @[email protected]
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              -11 month ago

              They favored Clinton, but they didn’t falsify votes or anything like that, democrats still voted for her (and Biden) in masses.