Tomorrow Donald Trump will take the oath of office again. By spurning economic populism and embracing Bush-era Republicans, Democrats helped pave the way for his second inauguration.
I voted neoliberal out of harm reduction least worst of two horrible, corpo bribe drowned options as usual. Feeling dirty to avoid feeling filthy.
Make no mistake, voting good cop neoliberal/bad cop fascist is a vote for continued oligarchy and class occupation, one with affirmation ribbons, one with scapegoats, both with defective capital batteries aka our fellow citizens dying in the streets to encourage labor compliance as a threat.
I still live with shame voting for the lesser evil, as it is endorsement of this capitalist trap. It’s a vote for quiet slaughter, not peace. And this time around, it was for nothing at all.
sigh
I need to get the fuck out of this place. We’ve gone full Fascist, and even those that claim to be on the left still harbor nationalist allegiance to this cesspool.
this its not my fault I did not vote for trumps competitor because they made me do it. it makes me sick. I keep on thinking about how different things would be if gore had won 2000 and how few votes it would take. thats ok. 911. iraq/afganistan. citizens united. patriot act. worse global warming. citizens united. all good.
Democratic Political Establishment: “I will slit your throat with a rusted spork if you even think to take my defeat I so rightly stole from victory’s jaws!”
Like had fours years to prep literally anyone to take Biden’s place, decided “Nah fuck it! We run dementia man!” And then last moment was like “WHAT?! Dementia man not popular? Fuck it, we’ll just select whoever ourselves fuck all those primaries.” $10 says they learn absolute jack shit from this.
$10 says they learn absolute jack shit from this.
If you raise it to 100 of your dollars to my shiny US 2022 penny, I’ll take that bet. I know you want this penny too. I can send you a picture if you want.
Remember in 2016 when they ran a deeply unpopular woman against trump, who alienated voters by being herself?
Flash forward to 2024 where they ran a deeply unpopular woman against trump, who alienated voters by being herself.
The good news is, in 2028, trump won’t be able to run again. So they won’t have the option to run a deeply unpopular woman against trump who alienates voters by being herself.
…oh god. They’re going to run Elizabeth Warren, aren’t they?
The good news is, in 2028, trump won’t be able to run again.
Yeah, about that …
Itll be Shapiro or Blinken.
You are assuming that there will be elections again. I’m not convinced.
I agree it’s ridiculous that the party didn’t cultivate new young candidates, but when it came down to election day and you don’t pick the candidate you think is least bad because you’re sick of doing that, you end up with the one that’s most bad. It’s like people were at the dentist and the choices were pull tooth A or pull tooth B, and they didn’t like either option so they went home and ended up with a giant abscess, cuz that’s how reality works.
I’m always suspicious of this sort of analysis because what are they basing it on? If you have no data, you’re just speculating about what would have worked and that’s just lazy. For every analysis saying Democrats were too bipartisan, there’s at least 5 others saying they were too far-left. They’re all equally lazy, just relying on the author’s blatantly biased speculations.
I can think of two things that are too obvious to be doubted about this last election: 1) Inflation and the non-informative way the media covered its causes drastically harmed Democrats 2) Biden was a terrible candidate due to being old as fuck and shouldn’t have run. Anything else, bring evidence.
For an example of a non-lazy opinion that focuses on actual data about why people voted one way or another, this is the best one I’ve seen.
Trump got a little over 2 million more votes than Harris. I know the popular vote doesn’t determine the winner, but he won most swing states by fewer than 200k votes. He won because 10 million Democrats across the country, who voted for Biden in 2020, decided not to vote for Harris in 2024. She would have won if even half of them had understood that showing up was more important than standing on their moral high ground because of whatever scruples they had about her. Rationalize it all you want, but that was the problem. Millions of Democratic voters didn’t show the fuck up. And now here we are.
Accepting a lesser evil is ultimately a logical and moral flaw. If that is why they stayed home, they are ultimately correct, which is why they’ve surely all joined a series of radical leftist militias to enact revolutionary change on our broken system.
Right? Because that’s the solution if you think the system is fundamentally broken and there are two objective evils instead of just not voting.
Where my radical militia homies at?
Okay Sheldon.
… standing on their moral high ground because of whatever scruples they had about her.
You’re blaming the voters but you’re not able to successfully articulate why they didn’t vote. You didn’t even try and dig into why people weren’t buying what Harris was selling and ultimately that’s the core of the problem.
I’ve actually read quite a lot of people’s objections to her, and I think enough of it boils down to a collection of petulant single-issue moral objections. If the people who do fit into that category had been adult enough to take the stick out of their ass, our real-life future would have been a lot better than it’s about to be.
Ultimately, calling voters “petulant” and that they haven’t “been adult enough to take the stick out of their ass” is a real problem for the Democrats. There’s a complete lack of self-reflection which means the same mistakes keep getting made over and over again because if they don’t win it’s not on them, their messaging, or their policies. It’s all the fault of those moronic, feckless voters.
Only if you ignore the 75 million who did the right thing.
Did they win?
No, and sometimes that happens. Ultimately nobody won this one.
Pretty sure Trump won it.
Will you be doubling down on blaming the voters next time, assuming there is a next time?
- Fascists say they’ll do fascist things when they’re in power
- Americans: “k”
- How could Democrats do this???
Right? Has a lot of “LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!!” vibes.
Just the one k?
Here’s a photo of two women who wanted Trump to win:
Holy misogyny, what is this trump social?
Trumps victory squarely falls on the shoulders of the Democrats and the greater left. Not some genius plan from king Cheeto. It was a master class in how to lose an election by the Dems.
I really REALLY want them to learn their lesson but I fear they super won’t.
the greater left
This is how we know you are ignorant and don’t know what you’re talking about. The Democrats are center-right, and the left view the majority of the D establishment and political class as the same corporate oligarchy of the GOP.
Not voting for Kamala was a vote to let Trump destroy the US and pull the mask off the whole “democracy” charade.
Democrats present not-Trump alternative
People don’t vote even to actually save their own skin
Somehow that’s the fault of the non-trump offering for people to pick the worst choice or abdicate any voting power.
This has been discussed. It’s simple-as.
