It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him.

Trump is a convicted felon, liable sexual predator, caused an insurrection on the Capitol Hill, tried to steal the 2020 election (find me 11,000 votes), constantly kisses Russia’s ass, has more pending court cases and gets sentenced next month and overall has been the main driving factor in America’s division.

Yet, this race is STILL either 50/50 or a slight tilt (Harris leads the polling aggregate right now). Harris gets destroyed by the corporate media for almost anything, yet Trump is still lying and saying the most outlandish shit and nobody cares.

Why does it feel standards are much higher for Harris than Trump?

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    342·
    4 months ago

    Because so many trump voters are low-information, rabid and impervious to fact and/or reason. They will vote orange even if he shoots someone on Fifth Avenue to death, or if there are 32-or-whatever felony indictments/verdicts.

    Meanwhile, many potential Democrat voters are also low-information in their own way - impressionable, fickle and with little memory retention, they seem unable to act upon a clear and present danger until it punches them in the goddamned face (and by then of course it’s too late), somehow have normalized the orange threat and are easy prey to an algorithm pushing a “both parties are the same” divide-and-conquer propaganda.

    The difference between a parasite-laden excrement chip cookie and a raisin oatmeal cookie, “But I wanted chocolate chip! bOtH cOoKiEs ArE tHe SaMe!”

        • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
          121·
          4 months ago

          I respect your concern, and I am sympathetic to the people in Gaza, but I don’t understand why we’re blaming Kamala for a war on the other side of the world that’s been going on longer than I’ve been alive.

          I’m pretty sure I’ve asked you this exact question multiple times, and I’m suspecting that you’re just a Russian spam bot now.

          If not, I appreciate your dedication to your morals, and wanting to defend the lives in the middle east, but until you get a fucking clue about how the world actually works, nobody’s going to take you seriously.

          • davidagain@lemmy.world
            9·
            4 months ago

            Linkerbean is a well known troll whose only purpose is to dissuade left leaning folks from affecting the election. The concern is 100% fake. If you try to discuss what Trump’s position or the Republican party’s position is on Gaza, it won’t work, it’ll all just come back to why you shouldn’t vote for the Democrats.

          • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
            27·
            4 months ago

            “I sympathize with Palestinians but anyone who doesnt vote to Genocide them is a Russian bot”

          • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
            26·
            4 months ago

            Harris is doing the Genocide right now. It’s real inconvenient Trump isn’t in power because the uniparty mask slips off.

            • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
              31·
              4 months ago

              It is amazing how quickly people started pretending Harris has been the president as soon as she became the nominee

              • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
                13·
                4 months ago

                It is amazing how quickly people started pretending Harris hasn’t been the vice president as soon as she became the nominee

                • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
                  31·
                  4 months ago

                  Literally nobody has done that, you just clearly don’t understand how powerless the vice president is.

                  I’m sick and tired of you absolute bottom dwelling dipshits doing so much damage to my intelligence by having to read your waste of data, good bye