Education is the foundation that the gop have fractured. Went into a retail store a couple of weeks ago, they had put up cards on every rack to let people know what the discount was for a certain discount. Most in this country cannot do simple math, 10, 20 and 30% off an item. It speaks volumes.
You know that the education system's structure is largely driven by teachers' unions, right? Yes, schools are really expensive and produce lousy results.
I well never understand this comment. Narrative is one thing but basic education and common sense would have told you what trump is trying to do is stupid. So no it’s not just a narrative thing- the way US has set up things from the constitution to the way the political system works, it’s all back to front which leaves them vulnerable to these kinds of scenarios.
Logically speaking yes but as our citizens have shown, sometimes it's about the feelings and story that motivates their decision. Stories can take a life of its own and people can feel more drawn to the story despite data and reality saying otherwise.
Well, maybe the first string quarterback should have retired before going 0-11 leaving the next in line 6 games to make the playoffs and win the super bowl.
It was Kamala that had ‘no regrets’ in defending Biden’s capabilities! You all sit here surprised at how this all went down when Republicans predicted how it was all going to unfold long before it did, he was gonna step down for “health reasons” and she was gonna step in…didn’t quite work out though huh?! Anyone with half a brain cell could see what was happening.
You never seen her speak or do an interview it sounds like. It wasn't that he was that good, it was that she was that bad. And conservative media? ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, CNN and the Associated Press are left leaning. You think the one right leaning media was able to make that much difference? I love that you blame it on anyone but her. That means the left will just make the same mistakes over again. And I appreciate that
Yea she’s got a weird laugh so I’m going to vote for the felon that has bankrupted 6 of his own businesses - we’re gonna stick it to those libs! ‘Murica
No, it's not the laugh. She just is just incompetent. Her 4 yrs as VP proved it. That's why NBC had to change her answers on their interview. She will go down in history as the most unpopular VP ever. Her poll numbers show that so it's not just my opinion. She was selected no elected to run. It's not that he was that good, it's that she is that bad. And obviously the majority of people, including democrats, saw that she was that bad. But I hope she runs again. That's a big gimme for the GOP. You sound a bit bitter.
Left leaning and fake news. They just lost a multi million dollar lawsuit for broadcasting blatenly fake news. And several other lawsuits have been filed because of their bias reporting. I bet you believe msnbc is non biased too, right?
The Trump folks are the only ones who understand what's really going on. I just wish the scales could come off the liberals eyes. It just blows my mind how ignorant people can be
It’s like PPP loans didn’t happen in 20 and start sloshing around the economy. It’s also like the world didn’t shut down and make global supply chains completely f’ed. It’s also like government spending didn’t occur to save us from the issues of a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. You are looking at this game “the economy” like it’s checkers. I’m here to tell you it’s chess and you can’t simply look at when things occurred and say that president is responsible.
The economy Trump inherited was Obama’s and he juiced it further to keep it going. Biden then inherited trumps and it was garbage and a global pandemic. To look at 2024 inflation rate and disregard it makes you worthless to discuss this topic with as you’ll refuse to use all evidence available.
Edit to add: housing also absolutely EXPLODED. Adding to the 2021 and 2022 rates.
ahh yes, the ol' 5 year delayed impact tax cut, happens all the time. Look if your going to cite propaganda. At least use propaganda that agrees with you.
I don’t think you can read. Or read correctly. Inflation has come down from it peak in 22, pandemic peak. The American consumer didn’t help spending in a market that hadn’t fully recovered.
Skyrocketing, when? It wasn’t skyrocketing. Smart people knew that the pandemic had started the whole thing. And after the vail was lifted the American people went on a spending spree in a world market that had not recovered. Which sent prices higher. That is what smart people know.
You think there are over 90 million pro Palestine people living in the US? Or even 2 million. The pro Palestine people were not going to save her. Optimistically there are only a few hundred thousand. And I'm being extremely generous.
Most likely it's as simple as that they found her annoying and unlikable, elections in the modern day are really a popularity contest, nobody thinks about or cares about policy.
Apathy perpetuated by Gaza/Israel and being tied to Biden and called Genocide Kamala. People didn’t vote Kamala because she “didn’t do enough on genocide” so they were cool with everything else being destroyed and now under Trump, shockingly Gaza is still under siege.
Not just the genocide, but the historic Democrat refusal to solve anything. Democrat voters have been systematically disenfranchising the voterbase for decades, and are now blaming the disenfranchised for Trump.
Dem voters never bothered to wash their hands, and now they're complaining they got ill.
Every time a Republican gets in, they destroy so much that when the dem wins, half the time is spent fixing the problems and people get frustrated to vote for dems again because they don’t see fast enough change and it results in republicans winning and destroying and repeat. This time was I think, a much worse outcome with project 2025 and him being a literal felon. Now the destruction is almost completely out of hand. Even if a super progressive AOC type wins, the change will be too slow and we will have a similar frustration. Two party system destroyed the country.
That's the issue though, AOC isn't super progressive, they're just a mark above the rest.
America doesn't have a two-party system, it's a one-party state. The Dems intentionally handicap themselves, not in some conspiracy to help the Republicans, but because real solutions would hurt them personally. AOC and Bernie are no different.
This is the same neckbeard, Twitter virtue signaling energy I’ve seen before especially since you are even saying Bernie and AOC are no different. There will never be a candidate that fits 100% of everything YOU think a candidate should stand for and have policy for. You live in a nation with millions. Do better
I made very specific claims. Your adding of assumptions did not need to happen, you could have chosen to see me as an individual person.
If you want to understand my positions, you are free to ask. If you're only interested in encasing individuals in dismissable boxes, save us both the breath. You deserve better than being used as a talking-piece.
No. There are not enough pro Palestine people in this country to cover the deficit in votes that was needed. She did not sway undecided voters. That is why she failed. Not cuz a bunch of leftists didn't vote (tho many still bit the bullet and voted for her)
Kamala is incompetent. She's not fit to serve as president of this country. She did a horrible job in California. What makes you think she can handle being president of the United States
I think you're doing them a disservice. They're also misogynists and racists and like when donald tells them white men are the best and all their woes are caused by non whites.
Because the majority of Americans, and I would say Canadians to some degree as well, aren't mature enough to elect a woman into that office. Then a black woman on top of that? We all felt the reaction to a black man, regardless of the FACT that Obama was one of the most educated and eloquant speakers to hold the presidency. Too man Americans could not stomach his being Black.
It just needs to be like sports. Let's just let the best people play the game no matter their skin color. Let's quit talking about skin color and let's start talking about who is best for the job!
Smart doesn't win elections. People want to feel like they're being heard. People want to feel like they have someone fighting for them against the system not for it. Also, people are simple-minded: they see egg and gas prices and say, "Dems did this" and ignore actual policy platforms.
I'm not saying Kamala specifically isn't capable of those things I mentioned. But she, the DNC, and her campaign team did not implement that in their messaging and actions this time around (in addition to other factors, controllable or not).
I voted Harris, but bluntly? Its because she offered nothing really beyond "more of the status quo that got us here" and "better than the alternative". Which, frankly, is all the Dems represent anymore; and all they can represent due to their DEEP conflicts of interest between their votes they need, and donors they want. They're "better than the alternative" ... that's not a high bar; and they've spent decades following that bar further and further right on nearly ever topic since the 70s. They're a "Big Tent" so big, that they now include "Moderate" Neocons like the Cheneys. And one look at Liz Cheney's voting record will show you how much she "opposed" Trump.
There is only so long "Fear of the Alternative" can work before people just grow apathetic and disenfranchised to it. Especially with Dems increasingly burning & disenfranchising vast swaths of what should be their own voting blocks for the last 50-60 years. They have no messaging, no clear vision to fight for, and way too often allow the Republicans to set the bar. They also again played their stupid game of "Just how little do we need to pander to the Left/Labor we know we need to win, while endlessly courting the ever more Right/Elite donors want to win with?" You could see this in real time in Harris' run. Why do people think they always sprint so hard right in the Gen?
That doesn't even get into the whole "we're the Anti-Fascism at home party, lock step arming and funding a Fascist Apartheid State's ethnic cleansing abroad thing". They cared more about their inability to manufacture consent more than what they were doing. But. at the end of the day, Fascism is "the marriage of Capital and the State". While he'd never admit it, it is the end destination of Friedrich Hayek's Neoliberalism, and his "Glory Days" of Gilded Age Capitalism. We have two parties that are essentially all Hayek Neoliberals atm. Just at different extremes and speeds. The Dems just remember what the "riot tax" was for. So what happens at the end of a Gilded Age? Trump is speeding up the process we were probably destined for anyway.
I'm more concerned with the fact that Democrat voters think Republican voters are braindead, easy to manipulate and selfish... yet they're never able to convince the Republican voterbase...
Because the problem with democracy is that it is the people who vote. Therefore you just need to convince the people to vote for you. In our case even if Kamala is much smarter and would certainly be a better president than Trump she will never win because Trump is a better salesman and the majority of the American people are too lazy to be critical and do research on what they are told.
You’re getting spammed with “because everyone but me is STUPID!!1!” which is one of the reasons liberalism is a failed ideology and the democrats a dead party.
Here are the reasons Kamala did not earn the vote:
No political identity. She tried to appeal to both blue no matter who democrats and never Trump republicans, and didn’t satisfy either, while also shoving away hold-your-nose leftist democrat voters as hard as she possibly could. Her flip flop political chameleon behavior on issues like Medicare for all lost the moderate voters’ trust.
She was a dirty cop. Speaking of shoving away progressives and leftists, as the San Francisco DA she opposed reforms to the death penalty, defended wrongful convictions and actively refused to implement a policy that would require the state to divulge exculpatory evidence in its own discovery, and prosecuted marijuana offenses despite running on legalization and talking about how she smoked herself (uncle tom shit, and the worst kind of political hypocrisy). People seem to have entirely forgotten the George Floyd protests and the circumstances that caused them, and I think that’s why you see people shocked that black men didn’t vote for the “tough-on-crime” establishment candidate.
She was sired. The DNC selected its own candidate instead of running a primary, which certainly alienated parts of their base. She was the first to drop out of the 2020 primary due to terrible polling. Biden running again despite saying he wouldn’t during the 2020 campaign, then waiting to drop until the DNC could make an excuse for selecting its own candidate was a massive party misstep.
Republican-lite. Fracking, immigration hostility, corporatocracy, cop cities, campaigning with fucking Liz Cheney, and all else business as usual including continued support for Palestinian genocide was a massive right wing push in the Overton window, and it had no base. There’s a vanishingly small population of voters who desires the kind of center right politics the democrats represent now. Most who align with those ideals would rather have an actual republican or MAGA candidate. The DNC leaves the labor and leftist movements entirely untapped because they’re diametrically opposed to the billionaire class that funds politics.
I’m fine with the democrats not learning their lesson. There’s a gaping hole in our politics that’s ready for an actual left wing party to waltz into. Ironically, it’s the liberals who need to wise up and realize that if their goal is truly to oppose fascism, they need socialism.
Because her whole platform was just knock Trump,knock Trump,knock Trump and whatever was prompted through the right ear prompter . She was a mere puppet in a string but the biggest flub was promising on Oct.8th not to change ANYTHING from the Biden administration years. Unhappy democrats didn't have any other choice but to vote against Harris by voting for Trump. It wasn't the sorry excuse of being a woman of color as much as being the worst candidate that the dems scraped up and chose for their people instead of letting the people choose their own candidate. It didn't sit well and it showed at the polls.
Female!!! You know, they just can't think without a man in front of them! Too many women are stupid AF when it comes to politics, they listen to their man!
Because over the vast landscape that is America resides an overwhelming amount of very, very dumb citizens. Not only dumb though, proud and loud about their ignorance.
If you're talking about politics on reddit, you're already WAY more politically involved than the vast majority of Americans. The only thing most Americans knew going into November was that their groceries were more expensive and had been for a while, and if you'd explained to them that the rate of inflation was going down under Biden, they wouldn't have understood how good of a thing that was because their understanding of the economy really doesn't extend past their household. Incumbents have been voted out pretty consistently all over the world as a result of the inflation COVID caused. It's a shame, but people don't see the value in understanding politics until their day-to-day lives get noticeably disrupted.
Then, of course, there's the fact that Kamala decided to spend the last month of her campaign parading fucking Liz Cheney around like any Republican voter was gonna be swayed by that when, in reality, her campaign needed to energize the Democratic base who were increasingly dissatisfied by the center-right approach she took with her rhetoric.
I love when repubs brag about being the "party of the poor and working class", and then consistently support billionaires and corporations and vote against people who actually came from or support the poor and working class.
They would have no standards at all if not for double standards.
Being smart is a disadvantage in large groups of people. I have learned not to open my mouth and just let things happen at work because the boss is always right.
She is definetly smarter than trump. The whole administration is debatable. Trump is a fucking idiot. He thought injecting bleach would be a good idea. Imagine if kamala said 1% of the stupid shit trump said
You're just taking his comment on COVID out of context I could show you the whole quote. And the fact that you want to take that comment out of context tells me you're not a reliable source. Only the facts please in the context that they are supposed to be in.
"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it'd be interesting to check that."
I have no idea how this quote could ever be taken out of context. Get out of the cult.
He was talking about how bleach and disinfectants could kill the virus on surfaces in minutes. Maybe we can look into something that could be ejected that could possibly kill the virus as well. He didn't say Hey go shoot yourself up with bleach. He was asking a doctor for their opinion if something like that could work.
Biden said Trump said drinking bleach could help fight the coronavirus. Trump did not specifically recommend ingesting disinfectants, but he did express interest in exploring whether disinfectants could be applied to the site of a coronavirus infection inside the body, such as the lungs. We rate Biden’s claim Mostly False"
False because of drinking bleach, true trump didn't say that. He did talk about disinfecting corona inside the body. Which is retarded. Is it impossible for you to be critical of your dear leader?
Don't get me wrong I'm critical of Trump when he f**** up but he was asking for a doctor's opinion on if something like that was possible. There's a huge difference than him suggesting to the people saying hey you should inject bleach.
So explain why things were so bad and Wars breaking out under her. Under Trump no Wars low prices low taxes LOL your argument is ridiculous. Give us names of who you think is so bad, so we can laugh
She wasn’t the POTUS but the VP when the wars broke out. Current POTUS has not brought peace to the World or lowered any prices other than gas. I doubt taxes will be lower for the majority of Americans who aren’t billionaires. You’re being gaslighted.
The democrats lied and covered up Bidens' mental decline. They proved to every one how incompetent, corrupt, and deceitful they really are. She doesn't have two working brain cells to run together.
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u/redheadMInerd2 2d ago
She sure is a LOT smarter than him or anyone else in his administration.