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Have you seen the numbers of people who think they were better off 4 years ago?
People think they were better off during the height of COVID deaths. Our attention span is 27 seconds. We're idiots
Also, Harris doesn't have a penis and somehow that's supposed to matter
A lot of folks actually were better off back then due to the stimulus checks...
Biden's years were the best of my life, I had stability for once....
That was nice, can't wait to fucking get laid off.
Yeah, getting less than one month's living expenses over a period of 18 months of un or underemployment really had me living large!
I'm not discounting that, but if you were disabled or on a fixed income then that one month's living expenses might be the biggest windfall you've had in decades.
A California lawyer trying to win a centrist campaign is like Tiger Woods trying to win a World Series ring. Harris wasn't the right person to run a centrist campaign. But, if she had run a progressive campaign from July, she would have won the popular vote and still lost the election. She wouldn't have gotten past a primary.
Elizabeth Warren would have been a better progressive choice. Mark Kelly could have run a progressive or a centrist campaign.
Gods, I'd have loved seeing an astronaut in the big chair.
You cannot put a woman or a minority on the ticket and expect Right Wingers to care.
Back in 2015 when it was either Trump or Ben Carson for nomination, I knew it would be Trump. Simply because I knew once the debates started and Boomers were actually looking at Ben Carson instead of just reading newspaper articles about him, they'd abandon him for being the wrong color...
And I was right
Too many people will simply never submit to Female Rule.
It's why I knew Nikki Hailey wasn't going to get the 2024 nomination despite Trump being the most idiotic and easily beatable choice (and if Kamela ran a progressive campaign and actually had time to make her campaign)
American Men simply do not respect women.
The man staged a coup when he lost then we voted him in 4 years later. He called my state and tried to overgrow our results and 4 years later Georgia voted him in.
Indeed. We elected someone who shits all over democracy. Idiots abound
The funny thing is I have been aware of this lack of memory for awhile but it has just gotten worse. I used to be amazed at the number of folks who could not seem to remember what things were like a decade ago but now thats been cut to about a year or so.
The cycle of political crisis generation and complacency has gone down from 8 years to 4 in the last forty years. People grew complacent over Clinton's two terms and then allowed GWB to happen, same with Obama and Trump, now we're putting Democrats in there to clean up after even worse crises than before, and putting Republicans back there after the last mess isn't even fully cleaned up.
Old white man, old white man, if he can't do it, no one can!
Yeah I wouldn't discount sexism, or racism - I do think it's hard for Democrats to win elections here unless people are in the middle of a conservative administration, they just don't remember how bad it is, it's like people who remember their time in school fondly once it's over.
But in general, it's also true that women have to be near perfect, to be promoted over a man. And same thing with race. Like they can't just be the better choice it has to be a blowout. Now to a sensible person, she met that bar and flew past it, but we aren't all sensible and people are stupidly nostalgic for times that were objectively worse.
You'd love for it to be about sex or race. Then the voters have.to change, not the democrats.
Sorry buddy... the democrats have to change. Alot. And they have to do away with First-past-the-post voting in the blue states they control. Get more people represented, more political parties on solving this problem. The democrats have demonstrated multiple times they are incapable of doing this by themselves.
I'm not a Democrat. Yes I'd like them to be progressive instead of drifting ever rightward. It sucks to have two totalitarian parties here. But if you think racism and sexism is dead in America you are blind.
The government isn't a machine, it's us. People.
A lot of people probably were better off. Not working or working remotely. Possibly getting 600/week in unemployment, it may even have been an effective raise. We now know the panic around covid was largely just that.
No. No we don't.