Bamboozled.
Bamboozled.
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And you were told that if you vote for Trump you will never have to vote again.
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And what they heard was: “And you’ll never have to think again!”
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Martin just ran out two members of the Rules and Bylaws committee....
Two neoliberal superdelegates who were literally and figuratively the problem with the party.
Ironically enough, the voting members of the DNC wouldn't have had the chance to make this pivot to the left if more people had held their nose for Kamala.
When a Dem becomes president, they pick the DNC chair and a vote is performative. If Kamala had won, the party would have stayed in the hands of neoliberals and they'd keep running sham primaries...
Which brings me full circle to Martin running Saunders and Weingarten out of the party, they were on the committee that sets rules for primaries.
So the Dem party is being fixed, it's just billionaires own the media and they'd rather Republicans win if a progressive makes it to the general. So there's a push to get people disengaged from the party, if that allows a neoliberals to win the primary, the media will suddenly stop talking shit about the Dem party again.
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I don't remember anyone promising anything. Just that sabotaging Harris out of spite was objectively bad and that you could bash Dems as much as you want after the election.
Nobody promised a revolution.
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Unfortunately too many people decided she didn’t hate Israel enough and sat out the election. And the democrats aren’t changing either way.
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Which entertaining that Harris was as bad as Trump on Israel/Gaza policy (she wasn't), every person who sat out objectively said, "I also don't care about Russia's genocide in Ukraine, Women's bodily autonomy, climate change, vaccination policy, or LGBTQ+ rights."
Suckers fell for the bullshit.
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In a winner-take-all election, anything but a vote for the runner-up is an endorsement of whoever wins.
Yes, this system is stupid. But we're not going to ever fix it by pretending that the rules of the game aren't what they are. Any eligible voter who didn't vote for Trump or Harris make a clear statement that Donald and protect 2025 were just fine by them. Regardless if they stayed home, voted for a vanity campaign, or just left the POTUS choice blank.
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That wasn't the only issue...
For example, she became pro border wall and pro fracking.
Other stuff too, in virtually every aspect she intentionally set her policy positions to the right of the Dem voting base to court the mythical "moderate Republicans" who stopped calling themselves Republicans decades ago.
Kamala losing was the result of the "who else will the left vote for, if not me".
And like normally happens, the answer was "no one".
We know how it works out because it keeps being the only choice, and Dems keep losing.
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There's a lot of space between hating Israel and being Israel's lapdog. Kamala didn't use any of it.
They aren't changing because they don't need to. The job is already done, their public was successfully manipulated into blaming anyone but the actual people that are in charge of rhe party and the platform itself. Enabling and scapegoating does not lead to change.
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This also applies to Biden. So many leftists held their nose for Biden due to his progressive promises and in order to "usher in" a new generation of progressives afterwards.
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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Imagine being a Democrat....
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"oops sowwy. we were only going to reform the party if we win. looks like we gotta stay late-stage capitalists and keep benefiting from fascists existing. dang"
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- Kamala was picked without the people's input, which is bad
- This comic trivializes Trump's authoritarianism by equating the two, which is bad
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They picked her as VP in 2020. If Biden had a heart attack on the debate stage, she'd be the incumbent.
Biden, was entrusted with the nomination. It was out of the people's hands after that point. And ultimately the transfer was in his hands.
In addition to the fact that nobody serious ran against her, and it's just a really unfortunate circumstance. It wasn't authoritarianism.
I wish we had an open primary. Hell, Harris might have won if she came out of it as the DNC leader, which would probably require a harder stance on Biden.
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This always struck me as an odd argument. I hadn't voted for the Democratic candidate since 2008 (all 3rd party), and I hate how they run their primary. But this was EXACTLY what registered democrats voted for in the primary.
There was a primary, and a published, publicly available ticket of Biden/Harris. That ticket had all the deligates, all the funds, all the votes. It was VERY clear who was being voted for and who Biden's successor would be in the highly possible event something should happen to him. When he bowed out and endorsed her, the deligates, acting in good faith... went to her.
Literally any other outcome would have been unfair to the primary voters. Maybe better, but not what they voted for.
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Well yeah, and if more people did that we wouldn’t be dealing with nearly as many problems as we currently are.
Short term, sure.
But it would be exactly like Biden's four years. Nothing gets fixed, lots of horrible shit still happens, and four years later we're still choosing between a douche and a turd sandwich.
If Kamala would have won, she'd have named the DNC chair, and she'd have named another neoliberal with no interest in giving voters what they want.
It obviously would have been better if elderly neoliberals had just stepped aside for any subsequent generation, but you know that never was going to happen.
So long term, Kamala losing might be for the best because it gave us the chance to fix the party. Just like long term it probably would have been best for Biden to have lost and trump to have been prez back to back instead of kicking the can down the road which only normalized it
You can't be simultaneously mad at Trump for reversing Biden's work and claim that Biden fixed nothing. Biden wasn't perfect but he was doing good things.
There won’t be a long term.
Anyone claiming that Biden was senile needs to look at the current incumbent. Anyone claiming that Harris was overly emotional, needs to look at the current incumbent.
The only way out of this is to completely destroy the GOP, just like we have completely destroyed the Australian Coalition last month.. Only then can things be turned around.