• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Can we stop pretending like racism didnt play a role in you guys rejecting her? Cause I remember everyone saying they would vote for any dem so long as it wasn’t Biden, so he steps down and they put in an educated black woman and you all trip over each other to excuse why you won’t vote for her, and why it’s better that white trump beat her.

    The rest of the world sees the racist turn the American left took this election.

    • FreeAZ@sopuli.xyz
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      6 hours ago

      Hillary won the popular vote. Obama won the presidency.

      I’m sick of this “Kamala lost because of racism and sexism” argument. She lost because she was a shit candidate. If she was as “educated” as you think she is she wouldn’t have capitulated to the right (who actually are racist, sexist and would never vote for her) and alienated her voters dipshit.

      And before you say it, I begrudgingly voted for her because it was the only way to stop fascism. I wish others had too, but thinking it was because the left was “racist and sexist” is fucking delusional.

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        9 hours ago

        Keep in mind, that was a while ago. Just like how a lot of people’s relatives didn’t used to be openly fascist, a lot of would-be allies scattered across middle america have been slowly brainwashed over the past decade or so, so you started seeing wild things like the creator of fucking Dilbert unmasking as a white nationalist.

        So yes, I wholeheartedly believe there are many, many people who at one point took no issue with Obama, perhaps they even put in a ballot for Hillary, but since then have been brainwashed into viewing taking a knee during the national anthem as an “Attack on all white people”.

        Don’t be naive.

        • turdcollector69@lemmy.world
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          4 hours ago

          There’s a difference between purity testing and taking shit candidates.

          She lost because she was a terrible candidate, nobody is excited for a conservative lite candidate. Anyone remotely interested is going to vote for trump, we needed someone who actually got the base excited instead of endlessly appealing to moderates.

          Moderates will join a bandwagon, starting with them will always yield nothing.