Harris had too short a runny and democratic consultant class making each other rich with TV ads instead of putting money on the ground and micro targeting
I dont think it was the ground game. I volunteered in PA, it was well staffed well Ron and had an abundance of volunteers and a lot of the people whose doors I knocked in swing counties said we were the third or fourth people there. The story is the outright misogyny in America, period!
Exactly. Vibes don't win elections, policy positions do. To be fair, enough, Biden should never have been the nominee to begin with. He ate up a lot of the clock when the country knew he needed to step aside. I blame DNC leadership
They have an aversion to letting us pick our candidates in primaries and took the opportunity to pick our candidate for us once it became apparent there was no time for a proper primary after Biden dropped out. They did it in 2016 as well with the exact same result, literally
She had policy galore, it had nothing to do with policy. She ran against somebody who had no policies other than scaring people and punching down on the trans community.
Right, because $6K when you have a kid isn’t a policy, a $25K first time homebuyers benefit isn’t a policy, or increasing the first two year new company tax deduction from $5K to $50K isn’t a policy Maybe she should have talked about Arnold Palmer‘s dick, that seems to be a winning policy, I guess.
Pelosi threw her under the bus because ALL of the old guard entertains the delusion that begging for bipartisanship is the way to go--despite all evidence to the contrary. That's why we lose. The "working class" they court --white, male, industrial, unionized, is a tiny fraction of the real deal.
we're making the mistake of thinking the dems are the left party. they're the center-right party. some of them, like pelosi, don't *want* ranked choice voting or campaign finance reform. we do and aoc does and that's why they only listen when we make them
I'm in my 60s. The Dems have been shit-scared since 1980, when they lost to Reagan. I grew up partly in Macomb Co., MI, where the Reagan Democrat was focus grouped into being in chats with people like ALL of my uncles. More auto plants in Macomb than any other County in the US. It's Trump Country.
I mean, they were right to be scared of reagan, he was the beginning of the end for this country. Iran contra, defunding the mental health apparatus, repealing the fairness doctrine, trickle down economics, the man was the worst thing to happen to america since andrew jackson, up 'til dubbya
I agree. But their entire response was to run TOWARD that shit. Not away from it. Even St Reagan couldn't get elected in today's Republican Party. He actually RAISED taxes when David Stockman admitted that the tax cuts were NOT paying for themselves. And, he worked with Tip O'Neill.
Yeah, compromise isn't always right, especially when it comes to right wing authoritarians. I'm a pragmatic idealist, I know where I wish we were, and what we actually are and it's never the same thing. To me voting is like taking a bus, get on the one that takes you closest to where you want to be
I think the idea of bipartisanship was kneecapped by Newt Gingrich and his contract with America and family values BS. Reps are so stupid that they go for these culture wars led by shithells and traitors
Yup, and it was done with malice of forethought. They knew what kind of world they were creating, one where conservative scandals wouldn't matter ever again. They never wanted a repeat of what happened to Nixon with watergate, and it led us inexorably to where we are today with tfg
only if we give up now. I'm all for cutting the rope in the middle and letting the entire right side fall off a cliff. that is a happy mental image, thanks
stay strong, The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice (if we strive for it) and reality has a well known liberal bias. and remember they only want corn in their melting pot, we've got to shit it out before there's room to add the good stuff
Do you think that if Hillary had knocked tRump out at that debate where he was following her around, she would have won? I think he would have sucked himself up into his own sphincter.
And, when you have the ranking member of the House Democrats talking about beating swords into ploughshares to "unite" with the Republicans, it just convinces even more people who lean left to stay TF home. Dems always fold like cheap suits, begging for "unity" that does not exist.
Put Faux Noise out of business (Teddy Roosevelt would if he were alive), break up the huge monopolies like Teddy Roosevelt did.
Hell, maybe next time, when MTG lies, AOC or Jasmine Crockett needs to take her to the floor and beat her ass. Right there in front of everybody, including C-Span.
True. They need to get rid of the old fogies and come out swinging with 1000 ton hammer every time they are in power. Do a Newt Gingrich right back at the Re-FUCK-licans. Close all tax loopholes for the rich, order the FTC to ban all stock buybacks, and bring back an updated FCC Fairness Doctrine.
She DID knock him out. Didn't matter. He was already a cult figure for white, working class dudes who, contrary to popular belief, have been voting Republican more or less since 1980. Farmers, factory workers. Look at Macomb, Co. MI. More UAW members than any other place on earth. Blood red.
Remember, these are the same people who threw Bernie Sanders under the bus for more Bush Clinton Bush Clinton when Bernie campaigned for President and, essentially turned Bernie's biggest supporter(Gabbard) into a trumper
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Hell, maybe next time, when MTG lies, AOC or Jasmine Crockett needs to take her to the floor and beat her ass. Right there in front of everybody, including C-Span.