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Don't worry too much, it's the same in France. A whole side of the politic is in denial.
Trump pretty much won on optics alone and positioning himself once again as looking out for people despite not being true at all. Dems didn't want to address people's issues with the economy and did the weird thing of tap dancing for right Dick Cheney voters who don't exist.
Just stand for something, even if the risk of loss is high. It pays off in the end.
Trump won on optics because the optics on the ground matched what he was saying. Democrats insisted the economy was fine when people were hurting, and lost because of that.
The small concession is that Trump is almost undoubtedly going to trip over his dick, so we'll probably end up with a blue wave of some sort in 2028. Nothing will change for the DNC and no lessons will be learned, so 2032 looks bleak as shit.
We need to understand that Dems are not going to fight for anyone besides their donors. They'd rather lose than take pointers from someone like Bernie
don't worry, we can severely underestimate the enemy with no repercussions as the Democrats will be automatically winners next time without having to change tactics at all.
Ah. Yes. It is my fault and I'll be the one fucking us as if I have any say in the DNC's policy since they listened to the concerns of people like me except not at all. At this point the democrats are the enemy too, dingus
I'm just editorilizing and am along for the shitty ride, homey. I don't have control of the train and there are no brakes even if I did...
From now on, the elections are rigged. The media is almost entirely fascist- or oligarch-controlled (to the extent that there's a difference). The courts are so corrupted that there will be no justice from them until they are purged.
But yeay, just sit there complacently and wait for the pendulum to swing. That'll work.
Lol @ the people who think they can vote themselves back out of this mess. Trump made it quite clear that "You won't have to vote anymore" after this term. I for one believe him. Even if he dies you'll just get saddled with one of his sons, daughter, son-in-law, ...
I've been hearing blue wave since 2016, it's almost 10 years now. Where is this blue wave, democrats barely got majorities, but hardly what I would call a wave. It's not going to happen in the next midterms, just another razor thin majority where some of the supposed Democrats vote alongside republicams to fuck over the people.
tbf, the majorities might have been thin but don't sniff at the fact that the Dems toppled an incumbent president AND got the house AND got the senate in 2020.
That is pretty unusual for American politics
Every breakdown and postmortem i see make it pretty clear:
If you paid close attention and were well-informed, you voted for Kamala.
If you believe things aren't true or didn't pay close attention, you voted for Trump as a sort of totem for wealth and success, not because of a specific policy of his you like. He just represents making lots of money to you.
Any grappling with what went wrong or improvements needed within the DNC first needs to reckon with the reality that people aren't seeing left-wing messaging and are instead exposed to a fake version of leftism pushed constantly by right-wing actors on social media.
We also need to consider that a massive swathe of the electorate is ignorant and for that includes a lot of people who have college degrees.
They didn't vote for Trump as a totem of wealth and success. They voted for him as their embodiment of rage, performative cruelty and payback against all the people in the US who make them feel like backwards losers. They identify with him because he's a raving asshole, and they instinctively kiss his ass because he presents himself as a grotesque WWE caracature of the rich.
Everyone complains about poor Democratic messaging but when are we going to admit that as long as Republicans own all major media platforms, any messaging by Democrats is going to be distorted into nonsense by the media?
Corporations and Republicans control the media. Putin deployed psyops on the social media of the bar room and bowling alley crowd. They controlled the narrative and will continue to control it until people wake up and realize they have become wage slaves who have a shit-hole standard of living.
The funniest part of it is that republicans took control of the media under the pretense that it was under the control of liberals and that was a bad thing. Now tge Sinclair media group pumps flagrant right wing propaganda directly through local news affiliates
If Democrats hadn't made a bunch of unnecessary and unforced errors, then we could blame it on the corpos and the Russians.
In a capitalist society, the role of government should be to protect citizens from corporations.
If nobody is willing to do that, what use are they?