NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections, in effect rigging the rolls to keep themselves in power no matter what the voters decide.
  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The thing is, a brown female candidate needs a ridiculously successful campaign to win for now.

    The party conveniently didn’t think that was a problem with Harris because she wanted to keep selling weapons for genocide.

    It’s not impossible at all. AOC may very well be the one who gets people out to vote. But she’ll also mobilize conservative voters to go vote for their guy, because she’s been such a boogeyman in their media, she’s literally seen as the devil by now.

    The party conveniently didn’t consider that to be a problem when they ratfucked Bernie to give us Clinton. The conventional “wisdom” that a centrist is a “safe” choice has proven disastrously wrong twice.

    Trump antics aside, I don’t think she’d win 2028, but she may win 2032 or 2036 provided the pendulum* swings back by then.

    You’ll come up with a new excuse in 4 years time. Women can’t win until there’s a centrist woman to run. Never mind that centrists LOST TWICE to trump, and when a centrist did beat trump, it was a squeaker. And to do that, biden had to promise a bunch of progressive policy he never had any intention of implementing. And that dementia patient seriously thought he could coast to re-election when his only unmitigated policy win was selling weapons for genocide. After all, it was the most popular shit ever with the centrists he surrounded himself with. The centrists who were propping him up and making sure he didn’t look too senile in front of the cameras as he kept the bombs going into hospitals in Gaza where centrists wanted them.

    Obama was to blame for everything wrong with the country. That’s why Trump 2016 happened. Not because the Clinton campaign was weak

    Obama was to Clinton’s left, therefore her loss is his fault.

    Again, was Harris a perfect candidate? No. Was she a great candidate? Not really. But would she have been a million times better domestically than Trump? Absolutely.

    Why do you keep trying to sell me on voting THE WAY I VOTED in an election THAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED? It’s over and you need to stop carrying water for the single worst candidate in US history. She lost to a fascist that everyone knew was a walking disaster.

    Not worse, just almost as bad. Not Gaza beach resort bad, but “Israel has a right to exist so we’ll keep giving them weapons to genocide the Palestinians” bad. This got a lot of potential voters to stay home.

    They were so insignificant that they were not worth listening to, remember? The word for someone you need to listen to in order to win is a kingmaker. You know, what your wing of the party considers Dick Goddamned Cheney to be.

    And all the people who said don’t vote for Harris, she’s a genocide enabler? Well pretty much none of them care about Trump being a genocide enabler, and they literally don’t care that Trump’s starting a SECOND genocide.

    It’s been neat watching centrists discover that they’ve suddenly always been opposed to genocide and always supported vulnerable minorities in the US. Pity they do the opposite when they’re in office. Maybe if they didn’t, they might have won.

    Right now my biggest hope for the pendulum swinging back left is Mamdani. If he can actually win the election, deliver on his promises, and noticeably improve the living conditions of New Yorkers - this is the left’s best fighting chance right now.

    Which explains why centrists are lobbing openly Islamophobic hate at him.