Political narratives that aged like bread

What a time to be alive. As it seems now, I was entirely wrong, as was 'conventional' political wisdom. May I continue to be wrong. It's a welcome failure, as far as I'm concerned.

Honestly, I had forgotten about Kamala when arguing that Biden was the best bet. My argument always lay in, "Needs to be familiar because Trump has this uncanny ability to swamp somebody without a track record", and I completely forgot Kamala fit that exactly in the same way Biden did - By being a VP

SO glad I was wrong, too - It was a lot of me groaning, "Oh god Biden is our best bet dear fuck no..."

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. The election isn't over. This nations racism, sexism, and sheer stupidity might be too much to overcome.

They didn't know about Walz. Seriously, wtf Democrats? It seems you have a treasure trove of untapped talent but you still wheel out barely alive corpses like it is the Imperium in WH40K. Let the next generation take over. The Old Ones should step back and turn into advisors and elder statesmen.

Doing an "I told you so" on people who are happy to be wrong is pretty silly.

Yep, I was one of those people, but I'm happy that I was wrong about it.

I didn't know what to think about Biden dropping out but I'm glad it's taken a turn for the best. It was a bold move and it paid off.

Don't get cocky, vote!

I won't pretend to know how it would have gone either way. Had it actually not happened in the timeline that it did happen, it could have easily been different. The momentum, the media narratives, the quickness with which the Democrats united behind Harris, all of these things caught most everyone by surprise. I could see any of those things being wildly different had Biden chose to step down much earlier. We don't like to admit it, but irrational, unknowable elements like "vibe" and "timing" have always played a huge role in elections.

Yeah though I’ll say two things in our defense: 1) it was a reasonable stance given the information we had, and 2) we’ve been some of the most proud to accept and admit that we were wrong people I’ve ever seen talking politics on the internet.

All the people who said I was helping the orange man by asking for a better candidate can tell me they’re sorry. Yeah right. They’re the same ones telling us to shut up about Gaza.

Around the time this article was posted, I largely agreed with AOC, even though I was very worried about Biden's stubbornness leading to his loss in November despite his capability of being an excellent leader.

But the fact that the party was able to resist chaos, keep steady on a Biden-lite agenda through Harris means that the Dems have vastly outperformed my expectations in the last month.

I will let Lemmy decide if I need to hold myself to account for my comment pledging money to charity if a "spry and progressive" candidate succeeded him. Does Harris count as spry and progressive?

Still, I imagine they're pretty happy about being wrong.

That's what they looked like at the time they were made too. Was so wildly disconnected from actual day-to-day opinions. Best argument at the time could have been "Biden won't drop out and the DNC won't do anything about that, so we should try to make the corpse look as appealing as possible."

I’m happy to be in the “i told you so” crowd, and I’m surprised that I predicted it would be kamala just being crowned president elect after biden drops after the speech.

What I never imagined was how much support Kamala would get. I thought a change like this, while it would have been better, would be controversial. While I’m upset with some things, like the wishy-washy “hope” platform and the promised things having a poor track record of being achieved by the dems, I’d much rather prefer this to biden, even with her terrible views on genocide and LGBTQ rights (especially trans rights)

Granted, this hope narrative is working wonders for a lot of democrats, and I even felt a little bit of it in my jaded, cold, black anarchist heart. Just the change of candidate alone feels similar to the times when I’d go home after spending a month eating the horrid cafeteria food in college to have a home-cooked meal. But i’m worried that after that brief weekend of good shit, it will go back to the same old bullshit once she’s in office

guilty

This just makes me want to play Balatro

Buffalo bagels

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It was so obvious that Biden dropping out would be beneficial and so many of you had your head up your ass about it. Same people that call anyone who brings up the genocide in Palestine Tankies. Gross people.

Go fuck yourself. You act like you knew this was gunna be the case all along. Most of us were fighting the "let's just have a vote at the DNC" people. And that's not how it went.

We didn't want chaos. Choas is far from what we got.

Get off your high horse there, mate.

Surely you can link some of those comments on Lemmy?