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We elected a black POTUS already, but not a woman one.
I guess you could say the same about Dem voters and Biden's health but to be honest I think most Dem voters were probably just voting AGAINST Trump. Plenty of people on the Dem side want the old guard/status quo to retire for new blood.
And just a bit of history, sometimes voters would rather elect a dead man than a live one. Look into former Governor Mel Carnahan who was elected to Missouri senate, three weeks after he died in a plane crash. Also, Democrat Anthony "Tony" DeLuca died Oct. 9, 2022 a month before winning his seat.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=voters+elect+a+dead+man
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/26281/4-dead-politicians...
Traditionally, both candidates needed to have a healthy amount of centrism to make sure they weren’t more evil/extreme than the other.
However these days it feels like populism is the new centrism. Bernie and AOC are more popular than ever and certainly have embraced populism rather than have centrist policies.
Representative democracy is ultimately an exercise of compromise in order to get anything done.
Don’t blame voters, blame the pathetic political machine that could not help itself.
https://uinterview.com/news/joe-rogan-mocks-man-baby-donald-... https://www.drjohnkruse.com/trump-nose-best-adderall-use-is-...
His entire cabinet was ordering shitloads of Rx drugs the entire time. The weirdest part is they refused to take generics, lol.
Moderate and conservatives in the US are deeply sexist and racist. I know plenty of women who wouldn't vote for a female president and are very open about it.
It’s like saying, we’d never elect a Jew because Bernie didn’t do well. No, he just didn’t have policies the majority of the country agreed with.
I grew up conservative and know very well the quiet things they don't say to most people.
A woman, let alone a black woman, is not electable in the US right now.
It blows my mind how people seem to think Americans aren't still sexist/racist when there is so much evidence saying otherwise. It's important to get outside our social circles and talk to people with differing views.
Americans seem to be trying really hard to justify voting for Trump by making it seem as if they faced an intractable choice between two terrible options - and of course many like yourself are piling on some conspiracy theory to also make it seem as if the options were equally corrupt.
But no. At worst, Kamala Harris was a mainstream candidate, not even significantly leftist, certainly no less qualified than Trump, and not "terrible" in comparison to other alternatives. Americans just don't trust a non-white woman in a position of power. They would have voted for Hitler just to have a white dick and balls in the Oval Office.
And Biden's mental and physical health was a subject of memes before he was even elected, and the most popular Republican President in history prior to the current one probably had Alzheimer's in office. And the current one isn't exactly at his physical or mental prime.
They had an incumbent President who had already beaten Trump. He did badly during the debate, they panicked so they ran their VP.
That isn't a conspiracy, it's just political game theory. The Democrats would have been foolish not to field Biden, and the next best option after Biden was Kamala Harris. Their biggest mistake if anything wasn't setting up Harris earlier. Show me where the Trump Administration has ever said Trump is anything but masculine and virile, a brilliant and cunning orator, master statesman and strategist? This is just how political parties work.
And I mean... "word salad?" Can't relate to regular folks? Compared to the incompetent, barely coherent billionaire? Come on.
Biden ran in 2020 as a single term president. He did his job to prevent a second consecutive Trump term. At some point that changed, probably because Trump never gave up power.
Again, the democrats were foolish to not aggressively prosecute Trump. Merrill did nothing for far too long.
The democrats were foolish to make Harris the “border czar” since the republicans simply have them beat on immigration messaging. They handed her a huge weakness and played directly into the republicans strengths.
The democrats were foolish to not have a primary. Harris simply is not popular. She does not perform well in the primaries, so they just decided no primary and a weak candidate was their only option.
If your party has an encumbent President, you run the President. No other candidate would have the same amount of power, public awareness or power of the bully pulpit, especially not against Donald Trump. Barring that, you have the VP. Doing anything other than what they did would have been political suicide. Donald Trump barely even ran and he was still a factor.
>Again, the democrats were foolish to not aggressively prosecute Trump. Merrill did nothing for far too long.
I agree.
>The democrats were foolish to make Harris the “border czar” since the republicans simply have them beat on immigration messaging. They handed her a huge weakness and played directly into the republicans strengths.
The democrats seem to have this pernicious belief that they need to bring Republicans into the tent... I don't understand it. They absolutely could not read the room. Biden was a stopgap, and his stances on unions and Gaza were alienating the left, so the best thing Harris could have done was pivot further to the left and be the candidate the left wished Biden was.
>The democrats were foolish to not have a primary. Harris simply is not popular. She does not perform well in the primaries, so they just decided no primary and a weak candidate was their only option.
She was still more popular and a stronger candidate than any other Democrat would have been, except for Biden. It would have been a race between Donald Trump - ex President billionaire whose every word and deed gets constant media coverage - and someone no one ever heard of. A primary would only be a sign of weakness and threaten to fracture the party.
Trump didn't exactly win in a blowout, the margin between he and Harris was slim enough that a Harris victory could have been possible.
Maybe they were foolish to run Biden at all. But the die was kind of cast at that point.
Of course both of us are speculating, but my view is that this is conventional wisdom in unconventional times
The democrats keep playing with a rule book that the other side threw away a decade ago. This is why they lose.
Republican voters are fed a steady diet of misinformation on everything the Democrats do. The hatred of Biden on the right boggles my mind, since he was such middle of the road guy, just keeping things status quo. Hillary also had decades of baggage from talk radio hosts and Fox News against her.
But of course Harris was weaker. It’s telling to me that despite her weakness, nominating her caused a panic on the right because it instantly nullified all of their canned attacks against Biden.
Imagine what would have happened if they’d fostered a new, young and unencumbered by Fox News propaganda presidential candidate.