BlitzoTheOisSilent

Yep, keep plugging your ears and telling yourself the voting base that wasn't represented in either candidate stayed home and it's their fault.

Not the fault of an unpopular platform telling Americans the numbers on their papers and charts are more important than their lived reality.

CiAo 🙄

The average person wants change, they want the system that is actively oppressing them to change.

Trump has promised change. It's the worst imaginable, but he's promised it, he's made his voters feel heard and seen, and he showed them he was willing to upend the whole system to make change happen.

Harris told the American people she wouldn't significantly be different than Biden and that we "Weren't going back," which just sounds like "Status Quo with extra steps" to the average American. And when the voting base asked for something progressive to excite them, something to vote for, the DNC scolded them that the time wasn't right like they did in 2016, and 2020, and 2024, and probably 2028 at this point.

The system isn't working and people want change. Trump promises to change things up (for worse, again, to be clear), Harris promised to maintain the status quo that isn't working. I imagine after being disenfranchised and disillusioned election cycle after election cycle, and being ignored with fascism at the door...

I'm not saying it's right, but I think America chose negative change to maintaining the status quo for another 4 years. Which... If 2016 wasn't the canary in the coal mine, I would hope 2024 would be for the DNC. Turning further right is losing them their own voters while trying to win over Republicans who will never vote for them.

Their voting base is tired of being told now isn't the time for compromise/policy changes in the party, but then watching the party change policy and compromise with Republicans. You can't tell your voting base you'd rather be Fascist-lite than work with them, and be surprised when they refuse to support you. 🤷‍♀️

You're being down voted because your entire reply sounds like, "Well, if you're depressed, have you tried being happy?"

"Unhappy" could be because your basic needs aren't being met, or you don't have enough time/energy outside of your two jobs to pursue any happiness. Or you could have just been broken up with, or lost a loved one. Or you're disenfranchised with your government, you don't feel represented, you've just lost to fascism. Or it could be chemical imbalances in your brain leading to a variety of potential mental health issues, or simply being neurodivergent. Or you could be LGBTQ+ in a place where it isn't safe to be that, or you don't have rights, or you are outright illegal.

Telling anyone living under those or similar circumstances to "just be content" is just insulting. Being "content" doesn't put food on the table or a roof over your head, and it doesn't improve the quality of your life under a system designed to destroy as much of your quality of life as possible.

Telling someone who is struggling to be neurodivergent in a world designed by and for people who are neurotypical, what contentedness are they supposed to find in life being a daily struggle in ways they may not even be able to explain, or that sound unreasonable to the average neurotypical.

Where is someone with mental/physical health issues but no access to health insurance or healthcare supposed to find contentedness in that situation?

Notice how in a lot of my examples, "happy" is more closely aligned to "comfortable" than it is "overfilled with joy and ecstasy every waking moment of the day." You can't tell people to be content when they're uncomfortable, especially when that discomfort is likely a result of basic needs not being met.

It'll probably be like when Trump and the DEA signaled they may want to start going after weed smokers in states that legalized it despite it being federally illegal.

The response from the states was, "Go ahead, but we're not helping you in any way."

And the DEA dropped it, I imagine because they didn't have the money or manpower to do pursue further.

Doctors are licensed at the state level, so the fed can't (currently) revoke medical licenses afaik. They can threaten to pull federal funding from hospitals and research centers, but that isn't all funding, and their own voter base has been vocally opposed to anything that makes healthcare worse (and also supported abortion rights at the state level this past election, even in states that went Trump).

Obviously, I could be completely wrong and they've (Trump and his ilk) already got avenues to counteract all of these barriers (and any I'm not thinking of). But I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic that, unless Trump plans on sending federal agents to every surgical suite and pharmacy/drug store in the country, I don't see a federal ban being enforceable without the help of the states.

And they will (hopefully) give Trump the finger. Cautiously optimistic.

No, to the point where I've had a few friends and family members offer to buy me decorations (or they'll text me of ones on sale), and I always turn them down.

Halloween, I'll put out a pumpkin if I'm feeling frisky, but that's about it. Christmas, I've considered getting a tree, and had a roommate that had a really small plastic one with two ornaments that'd we'd put out.

But they're too expensive, they're too much work to put up/take down (especially outside in the snow), they take up too much room both while in use and in storage, my dog would probably fuck with them or be afraid of them (Halloween), they drive electricity use and cost up, they can be stolen, they can increase fire risk, I normally live alone so it'd only be for my dog and I, the list goes on.

I tell friends/family, particularly for Christmas since many of them can't believe I just don't do decorations, that I draw a Christmas tree on a piece of paper and tape it to my wall every year. Costs $0.05 in ink, paper, and tape, and 5 minutes to put up and take down. Easily movable, lightweight, efficient.

What do you want them to do, unlock and get back in the car, restart it, put it in reverse, reverse a couple feet, put it in park, and shut the car off before having to close the door and lock it again?!

My guy, they already got out of the car, like... 🤷‍♀️

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It's the Dems fault.

Their constituents wanted progressive policies, they wanted change, and when asked what Harris would change or do differently from Biden in her administration, she said "Nothing."

Their constituents asked them to meet in the middle on the Palestinian genocide, and they were told there was no compromise, fascism/democracy was on the line and it was too important, etc.

And then the Dems began trying to court Republican votes, began parading Republicans alongside themselves at campaign rallies, all while moving further center-right and aligning closer to Biden's centrist policies.

The Dems told their voters they were unwilling or unable to compromise on the policies the electorate wanted, but then extended their hand across the aisle and called for Republican support, while compromising on the already-barely-left policies Harris had and making them closer to the center...

And the voters stayed home. 11 million people chose "No thanks" versus voting for or against a candidate. Way too many Americans voted for Trump, absolutely, fuck em.

But a lot of people looked at their options and didn't see a substantial enough difference to bother voting. That tells us more about the Dems and their incredibly unpopular platform among their electorate, and how their campaign strategy of "just be slightly less Republican" isn't winning Republicans to their side, but it is disenfranchising their own progressive base.

Who I think just made it clear they'd rather not vote than keep being told to plug their nose and wait for progress that just isn't coming.

The DNC clearly needs progressives to win, and yet liberals refuse to do anything but antagonize and insult and condescend to leftists.

We tried "incremental change" with Hillary in 2016 and lost, Biden leaned more on progressive talking points and won (barely). The DNC saw that and said, "alright, so 2024, we're gonna go hard right again."

All the while, leftists and progressives, throughout the campaign, were vocally calling for policies that better reflected their needs and concerns. They weren't asking for everything, but they wanted something to show them the DNC was willing to compromise with them.

Instead, people like you and the Harris campaign, doubled down on Republican-lite policies because "stop fascism," condescended to and screamed at anyone who tried to criticize Harris and her policies during the, refused to meet us, the leftists they need to win the election, anywhere in the middle, but then extended a warm and welcoming arm to Cheney and her Republican ilk.

So why is it the Democrats are more willing to compromise with Republicans who won't vote for them, but not compromise with their own constituents looking for a progressive option to vote for rather than only an option to vote against?

Lmao, sorry they couldn't handle the truth, just like you, bud.

Keep plugging your ears and telling the electorate their wrong, maybe you and the DNC will lose another 11 million Dem votes with your Republican-lite policy platforms.

Why don't y'all get ahead of the ball for once and start blaming leftists now for your losses in 2026 and 2028? It'd be the first time the DNC was progressive in my lifetime.

Because you're wrong and can't.

And yeah, wonder myself and other leftists are angry over being blamed for y'all refusing to work with us.

Enjoy losing 2028. Was that calm enough? 🖕

Edit: and I've addressed your original point, multiple times, by the way. Learn to read, and maybe learn to think.

I didn't say Trump would be better, and you didn't answer my question or address how Biden and Harris' foreign policy regarding Israel made any sense.

I said Harris and Biden showed unconditional support to a fascist leader (Netanyahu) despite the fact that Netanyahu:

• Was openly working with Trump, their fascist opponent,

• Was believed to be actively working to sabotage the ceasefire/peace talks by elected members of their own party to help get their fascist opponent elected,

• Is actively committing a genocide in Palestine, as well as attacking Lebanon and Iran, which Biden has not once stopped unconditionally supporting (and Harris indicated she would do the same) despite vocal opposition from their voting base,

• Continues to receive unconditional support in the UN under the Biden administration despite the international community calling for investigations into Israeli government leadership and their genocide, war crimes, illegal settlements, etc.

So, once again, tell me what the big-brain move here was for Biden and Harris to rail against fascism while unconditionally supporting a fascist actively committing a genocide that their voting base has show vocal opposition to for over a year?

You can't rail against a fascist, while unconditionally supporting a fascist, and then be surprised when people stay home because they think their choices are fascism-express (Trump) or fascism-ground (Harris/Biden).

Ok?

As late as July 2024, the press was reporting that Trump was in regular talks with Netanyahu. At some point before the election, they reported that Democratic politicians felt Netanyahu was purposefully escalating the war in the ME and sabotaging the peace talks to hurt Biden/Harris and help Trump, a candidate with much friendlier Israeli foreign policies (and similar political mindset).

I see an article from The Hill and that's literally the first paragraph. The article is dated Oct. 4, 2024.

Democrats increasingly suspect Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to interfere in U.S. domestic politics by ignoring President Biden’s calls to negotiate a peace deal in Gaza and by confronting Hezbollah and Iran weeks before the U.S. election.

On Oct. 7, 2024, Reuters reported that Harris stated in an interview she wasn't worries about Trump's talk's with Netanyahu, literally just giving the answer "No," and reiterating her Middle East policy.

So the grand move was to keep unconditionally supporting a fascist world leader's genocide while he sabotages your ceasefire/peace efforts and your campaign while openly meeting with your fascist opponent, all while your base is saying to stop unconditionally supporting the fascist world leader?

Is there a big brain, 4D chess move I'm missing here? I understand AIPAC and the Jewish and Israeli communities are an important demographic for the DNC, but come on... How is this not "Leopards wouldn't eat my face" from the people always screaming about leopards eating faces?