Grow up dude. We had one choice, an orange racist rapist criminal or the VP in a relatively successful administration who wasn’t a racist rapist. It wasn’t that difficult.
You’d be surprised how many voters knew nothing about Kamala other than what MAGA social media and FOX news told them about her.
Americans are used to seeing presidential candidates for at least 2 years before voting for them. The primary process and the stories that arise from that are vital towards informing voters.
Giving the lady you just stuck in the closet for 4 years less than 6 months to run for president was a short sighted move by the entire party and demonstrated their inability to be decisive.
Biden was a good president and millions of Americans did vote MAGA for all the wrong reasons. That doesn’t take away from the fact that his admin failed to set up the next generation of his party for success.
The only people who watch FucksNews are those who would have voted for trump anyway. There is no excuse for voting for him unless you were aligned with his message of hate. This wasn’t an election between two candidates who had similar views and policies, it was one where the difference could not have been greater. Voting for the orange racist rapist was a conscious decision to want what he wanted for America, the destruction of everything that stood in the way of white supremacy.
You’re giving way too much credit to the average American and their knowledge of current events, civics and way the world works.
Most news watchers watch Fox News. They are the largest cable news network by a really significant margin.
The average American cannot name all 3 branches of government, let alone understand how our government is being taken over by a white supremacist, corporate oligarchy. Those are all just a bunch of big words.
FOX News and MAGA succeed because they use plain language and give their viewers a clear enemy to blame their problems on. Simple minded people like this rhetoric because it gives them a free pass to say “my life is a mess and everyone hates me but it’s not my fault.”
Too many leading Democrats fail to realize they’re talking to a population that doesn’t value intelligence. When they go on cable TV speaking like Harvard professors while avoiding podcasts and other internet channels, it makes it super easy for MAGA to put whatever words in their mouth they want.
If Dems cared about winning, they’d be on FOX news every day and Joe Rogan once a month supporting economically populist policies and laughing off weird conspiracy accusations.
Instead Kamala ran on fucking tax credits that would only help already well off families and other vague economic ideas that would do little more than slightly soften the status quo. Americans unanimously want change and Trump represents radical change. You can’t run on a status quo platform against that.
Republicans have been pulling the same tricks since Reagan. Nothing Trump did leading up to the election was remotely surprising. It’s certainly Biden’s, Harris’, and the rest of the party’s fault that they continue to ignore this reality while pursuing palatable but still overwhelmingly corporatist legislation.
Republicans have been pulling the same tricks since Reagan.
Time & time again far right fascists rise to power by taking control of whatever media is the most popular form of media at the time, that reaches the young male.
This fact goes all the way back to the invention of almanacs
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u/JCPLee 9d ago
Grow up dude. We had one choice, an orange racist rapist criminal or the VP in a relatively successful administration who wasn’t a racist rapist. It wasn’t that difficult.