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Obama is one of the most popular presidents in my lifetime. Hillary won the popular vote. The problem wasn't being a woman or a person of color, their problem was being shitty candidates that the public doesn't like, running terrible campaigns.

Yeah, and I didn't vote for him either, so I don't see what's so absurd about that. It's possible to be against the Democrats for supporting genocide, while also being against Trump for supporting genocide. In fact, I've found it easier to just be against genocide no matter who is supporting it.

Is there any polling indication that showed to show drumpf winning?

Yeah, I kept hearing it a lot before the election. It was roughly ~51-49 in favor of Trump.

I'm not sure how the rest of your comment is related? Can you explain?

How is accurately describing what happened "deflection"?

But the Democrats aren't going to start fighting for what the people want if voters keep trying to vote Blue No Matter Who.

I get what your saying, and I think there's some truth to it, but I've also seen the Democrats in action, and I can't say that I have any hope that they are going to suddenly change their ways. If they really don't want the 3rd parties to split the vote, then they should try adopting the policies that the 3rd parties are running on.

I totally agree, and I never understood how adding a parasitic middle-man is supposed to make things cheaper.

"without it, we would have to pay out of pocket for ad supported services!"

Actually, I don't think we would for a lot of things. The internet existed long before it was advertising funded. Web-pages used to be things that people made because they were passionate about what they put on those pages. Advertising only came later.

Hell, there are still plenty of things that people build and maintain because they like it, not because they make money from it. How many people work for free on things like Wikipedia, FOSS, Fediverse, etc. just because they want to see it succeed?

I'm not familiar with the history of Porgual. Can you explain why that's relevant to this? or possibly link to something that would help explain?

I don't know enough about her campaigns to say why she didn't win. Is there any indication that Americans thought she was going to fight for what they want?

Nope. I voted 3rd party because I didn't want Trump, and I also didn't want Harris. Maybe if Harris had tried campaining on what Americans wanted, rather than trying to win over people who were obviously not going to vote for her, we wouldn't be here.

But she chose genocide, money, and the Cheneys over winning an election against one of the least popular presidents we've ever had.