I have tried to say that, but the cognitive dissonance against accepting responsibility is still too much for most Dems to overcome.
So I just say great triangulation strategy on getting the Liz Cheney white suburban Republican women voters, guess you don't need the left, migrants or Arabs, eh?
It seemed so obvious from the start that disenfranchised Republicans would never vote for her no matter how far right she moved. I'm firmly convinced that it was always about securing donors rather than voters.
Running a campaign on saving democracy while trying to silence protestors from your own party in order to support foreign fascists committing a genocide was a bone headed move.
"Look, we ignored genocide because WE HOLD PARTY LINES and now we're blaming everyone else for the genocide we funded because WE HOLD PARTY LINES. What's self-reflection? Oh I avoid that. Only reflecting I do is in a mirror."
And how do you feel about the current regime's approach? I don't know what to tell Uncommitteds either, except, "You're talking as if you too are not affected by what happened here. As if there's some other perch from which you can mock Dems."
Right now in Gaza, the situation is bad but significantly better than any point on the 15 months that Biden oversaw the genocide. This may be the only situation that is currently better under this admin.
It being bad now doesn't magically make a failed strategy any better. They still lost with a strategy that was losing them support, something that was pointed out to them several times.
This attitude of "you should vote better" won't fix the strategic failure of ignoring what your voters want.
It was amazing how many times I had people yelling at me that I just wanted a unicorn when it is, in fact, the candidate's job to present a platform that voters will want to vote for.
I've described it as sports team voting but honestly if they looked at it with the cold eyed objectivity of a game strategist they'd get a lot more done.
It's more like they're avatars of the idea of Demographic Inevitability and feel betrayed by the real world. Could be why they like Republicans.
Telling dems not to blame Dearborn and leftists for Kamala's loss is not mocking. Dem leaders ignored their own polling and alienated allies. They committed to genocide instead of seriously trying to defeat Trump. Since we're all suffering together, you should be mad at them for not fighting better
Dem internal polling showed this was a losing position from the jump. Biden, Harris and the DNC made the conscious decision to prioritize facilitating a genocide over stopping Trump.
It's enraging that so many Dem boosters insist on shifting the burden of their choice onto the electorate.
I just. I don't understand. If it were me and the compromise to get a vote was not helping blow up children and seeing their remains draped from rubble I'd give in. To hear Kamalas team filed Gaza responses under what was it? Didn't respond or no? That's wild to me. Chosing this is wild to me.
To risk alllllllll of this with no back up plan? They didn't come out of the gate swinging. Didn't even rig the toilet to overflow on their way out? Who is proud to vote for this?
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So I just say great triangulation strategy on getting the Liz Cheney white suburban Republican women voters, guess you don't need the left, migrants or Arabs, eh?
and it went down as a stupid idea because unsurprisingly people resent being patronised by celebrities
So what does Harris do? She fills the stage with even more stars
Are these people stupid or what?
This attitude of "you should vote better" won't fix the strategic failure of ignoring what your voters want.
The Democrats failed to do this, end of story.
It's more like they're avatars of the idea of Demographic Inevitability and feel betrayed by the real world. Could be why they like Republicans.
It's enraging that so many Dem boosters insist on shifting the burden of their choice onto the electorate.
winning wasn't important. winning without us was.
The empire is not subtle, huh