And I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding the motivations of voters in this election. In 2024 voters wanted change badly, Trump offered that, and Kamala offered ‘normalcy’ and ‘continuing bidens legacy.’ All they had to do was offer some change. (Justified) Morality bashing was never enough. - ThreadSky

xbayse.bsky.social • 43 days ago

And I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding the motivations of voters in this election. In 2024 voters wanted change badly, Trump offered that, and Kamala offered ‘normalcy’ and ‘continuing bidens legacy.’ All they had to do was offer some change. (Justified) Morality bashing was never enough.

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thelittlestant.bsky.social•43 days ago

And if people want to admit they voted for Trump admit it and don’t hide behind Palestine. But let’s not pretend that a lot of what’s driving this is intolerance and racism as well as so called economic measures. People hear sound bites that back up their biases

xbayse.bsky.social•43 days ago

I think you have a brain worm that tells you people wanted Trump and are hiding behind Palestine but this is self defense measure put up to ignore that this is all joe Biden and the dems fault for capitulating to capital interests. Put pressure on your party to change (they haven’t since 2016)

thelittlestant.bsky.social•43 days ago

You need to back stuff up with action- not happening. It’s also difficult to accept that your country has deeply racist and bigoted roots (hey Brexit) and it’s easy to ignore global patterns in voting and the psychology behind it. But all this will do is swing the democrat party more to the right

xbayse.bsky.social•43 days ago

Okay okay, this is my point. America is evil, democrats are not doing anything to message on that or fix that, republicans are promising change. Democrats are always gonna lose. Democrats are not only inwardly but also outwardly aligning themselves with the evil forces in America.

thelittlestant.bsky.social•43 days ago

https://youtu.be/kWuzeHKXyCI?si=-q-rT7cNRtFFaUrO

I think this is what you’re trying to describe

thelittlestant.bsky.social•43 days ago

Look - there’s a video on LBC I think you ought to watch, which actually describes the psychology behind this a lot better. I think this is too simplistic a breakdown.

thelittlestant.bsky.social•43 days ago

But go back and read what you’ve said: if people aren’t galvanised against a president who have been openly admitting they are fascist that says a lot about your voter base and what they will tolerate. It’s too easy to just blame the Dems and not reflect on that alarming fact.

thelittlestant.bsky.social•43 days ago

Oh please, we just went through this in the U.K.

xbayse.bsky.social•43 days ago

The dems acted very similar to labour during eu referendum. These are two sides of the same coin.

thelittlestant.bsky.social•43 days ago

I think a lot of people will argue with you that Corbyn is not the same as the Democrats - however he was pro-Brexit and I’m personally not a massive fan.

xbayse.bsky.social•43 days ago

Yeah, Corbyn was pro brexit. Kamala was pro gun, pro military force, anti-Medicare for all, pro immigration policing. The point is that democrats didn’t give people alternatives that mattered to them, so people either didn’t vote or voted green. The electorate isn’t smart, I don’t think they’re evil

xbayse.bsky.social•43 days ago

In that way, Kamala didn’t give people enough to care about. I think the voters are seeing that they were wrong already, but don’t confuse a failure of communication with a fundamentally evil voter base. An inherently self interested base? Sure. Dems didn’t take advantage of that.

thelittlestant.bsky.social•43 days ago

Hmm how many first world countries have never had a female leader? I think you need to ask yourself why that is.

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