SalamenceEvil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠
aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him)Of course being pro genocide lost Harris votes. The DNC is fine with Republicans (including Trump) winning so long as they can preclude the left, which is the actual purpose of the Democratic party. Most of the base will happily be useful idiots and spend their energy punching left rather than allow any criticism of the party, all the while calling the left naive and blaming them for losing elections.
In a FPTP system it’s wild to me that Harris wasn’t chosen as the least of two evils for these people. Look at what Trump is going. Is that actually preferred?
𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔Because it’s a FPTP system, having Harris as their candidate made many people just not vote.
They were wrong in thinking that not voting would have been a good decision.
Is that actually preferred?
I dunno, maybe we should have an election to see. Oh, wait, we did. I guess you have your answer. So what should the Democrats do about that?
Field a candidate which is not evil?!
They’re the solution for the problem of their own making.
Actually it seems like the solution is to field someone just as evil, or even more so than Trump.
He won the election after all. Why court votes from a base that is going to subject you to endless purity tests?
Gotta court the rightwing vote 'cause the leftwing vote can just be corraled with endless repetitions of “If you don’t vote for us you’re voting for Trump”.
After all, that worked so well last time …
The last two times. 2016 and 2024.
In 2020, Biden actually promised policies that the left wanted. He won. Then killed the party’s credibility for decades by making it crystal clear that they were all lies and that the only thing he was interested in doing was breaking the law for netanyahu.