• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Any candidate that isn’t a Republican is more than good enough, the fact that progressives like Biden and Harris win the primary is a boon.

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      6 hours ago

      “Any candidate that isn’t a Republican is more than good enough”

      Yeah then why did we lose? Maybe “vote blue no matter who” is a dogshit slogan for an even more dogshit approach to campaigning.

      Do you really expect anyone who is not a diehard liberal to hear that shit and get excited? Fuck, do you really expect diehard liberals to hear that shit and get excited?

      Honestly do you think people go “oh boy I can’t wait to hold my nose and vote for someone I don’t like”? Furthermore do you expect that half-assed attitude to beat Nazis who actually are excited to vote for their candidate?

      That whole argument is just weak ass plea for neoliberal mediocrity and nobody is buying it anymore. 2024 is clear cut evidence of this being a losing strategy.

      Maybe, just maybe, if we had an actually progressive candidate and not just some neoliberal Republican-lite to make people excited to vote we wouldn’t be feeding wins to the die-hard Republicans.

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        5 hours ago

        We lost because a massive campaign by foreign interests including Russia, China, and Israel favored Trump in addition to a half century long misinformation campaign by the wealthiest in US to promote low taxes for themselves at the expense of welfare.

        The fact of the matter is the DNC are highly progressive with massively successful and approved of policies, but nobody believes that because of easily taken advantage of flaws in human psychology.

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          Nah dog that’s cope. I’m sure foreign agents were involved but picking Kamala Harris was single-handedly the worst fucking decision that could have been made. The moment she was announced I knew it was going to be 2016 all over again and whadda know, it was even worse

          It’s not really foreign interference if you’re actively sabotaging yourself.

          The fact that Walz was way more popular than her and yet they were muzzling him is insane. If your VP is orders of magnitude more popular than your Prez you can rest assured that the rest of your campaign is absolutely cooked.

          That foreign propaganda/interference wouldn’t even be a factor if our Representatives actually got anyone except for hedge brokers excited.

          I’m just saying maybe desperately gaslighting people into believing shitty candidates are good isn’t a winning formula. Maybe we should have candidates that people actually like or at the least has at least won a single primary.