The strategy was to wield identity politics as a weapon by making these false claims, eg, “It’s her turn”

That’s a really low gold bar, but I guess we have to start somewhere.

Biden has circumvented his own Congress on numerous occasions throughout the past year to enable the Israeli genocide of Palestinians to the maximum degree possible - to the detriment of American citizens presently going without food, shelter or healthcare. Biden pushed for us to engage in the forever war in Afghanistan and Iraq and helped to ensure we stayed entrenched there for decades. Biden is an absolute war monger who will stop at nothing to further enrich American military contractors and arms dealers - he’s made his whole career about it. This move should not be considered shocking by anyone with half a clue.

+1 to that!

Nah, I don’t see it playing out that way at all. A genuine populist revolution will easily be able to pull working class voters from all walks of life. In fact, I strongly believe that a true leftist movement in America would force the merger of the neocons and neolibs for their very survival.

For democrats, the problem is that the establishment leverages the DNC delegates to ensure no true populist ever sees the light of day. Plus the usual media smear jobs, etc. Regarding those elitist dems who are in charge and keep forcing these corrupt centrists down our throats, giving us only 5-10% of what’s promised each election at best…they can do whatever they want, which will likely be turning conservative to try for lowering their taxes. We don’t need them, and personally, I don’t want them either.

I agree - too many people mistakenly believe the Dems can be reformed into an actual leftist party. This just isn’t going to happen. They’re corrupt to the core - a center-right fundraising organization eager to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and they would rather the country burn than do anything against the wishes of their wealthy donors.

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This part is actually kind of wild. For a people who idolize “strong men” to such a degree, the amount of crying they do is absurd.

Precisely! The DNC is a fundraising organization, full stop. Been that way since the 80s.

Monied interests wield their donor privilege to ensure these lessons are never learned nor discussed in media. This influence is so powerful, Harris campaign wasn’t even allowed to lie and pretend to be populist like Trump had been doing, in order to attempt to win the election. The donors must be appeased above all else.

Personally, I think the Democrats are doomed to ratchet further into the grip of conservatism in perpetuity. But if you really want to reform the Dems instead, it has to start with significant campaign finance reform to end the legalized bribery.

Imagine being so bad at politics, that you lose to Trump 3 times in a row.

Got the discount because of massive leverage over Trump - unless he won the election, he was eventually going to face serious criminal charges. Now he stands a good chance of getting off entirely scott free.

This is 100% what will happen, so of course the Dems will try to do it. Fools.

I think those leftists who abstained from voting know how this happened, and I’ll give them credit for having principles in a time where principle is severely lacking. Either way, you’re wrong to blame them - Kamala could have won every last one of those votes if she denounced the genocide perpetrated by Israel and announced plans for an arms embargo as soon as she took office, but that was too much to ask for a politician thoroughly corrupted by AIPAC money. The blame squarely lies with DNC leadership for losing yet another election in spectacular fashion.

Definitely won’t be televised.

Yeah it’s hard to vote in an informed manner with so many obstacles to education. I suspect this problem is about to get a whole lot worse unfortunately.

That would be cool, but I meant more metaphorically. Other parties have come and gone in the history of the US - now is a great time for an actual populist party to rise up and win voters from all political spectra. It isn’t just Dems who are feeling disenfranchised, and a large enough movement could pierce through the media bubbles on both sides to gain momentum.

I voted for Walz.

Dems suck at winning elections because for 40 years now their strategy has been a losing one of “try being Republican-light.” They’re too corrupted by corporate bribes to right the ship, hopefully it sinks into a sea of conservative ignorance and an actual leftist party can rise from the ashes.

What strawman? When is it appropriate to hold DNC leadership accountable for losing the election, again?

Can confirm, on voyager app, all images are tiny res

Swap to diff instance on same app, images are fine.