And you represent the real problem, in my opinion.
bOtH pArTiEs need to stop treating independents like shit. It doesn’t help you. You REQUIRE independents to win, perhaps you should stop treating them with contempt? Maybe do what they want… like stop supporting Israel?
You might THINK not supporting Israel is “blatant extreme right wing authoritarianism”, but independents don’t agree with you. Have a little respect… a tiny bit.
Just an idea.
In America, we punish the incumbents. BoTh PaRtIeS have told their own constituents to fuck off; membership of registered voters is at 30% each. Independents are now 40% of voters.
Whoever wins the election tells the people who elected them to fuck off; so, we vote them out. That’s it. The new election winner then tells the people who elected them to fuck off, and so on.
Examples: Biden runs with minimum wage increase as platform, wins, then tells everybody to fuck off.
Trump then runs with “no war” as platform; wins, goes to war and tells his voters to fuck off.
He will be replaced by a Democrat, who will then also tell their voters to fuck off.
Repeat ad nauseam. Neither party does what they are elected to do and are then punished, to be replaced by the other party that will refuse to do what they were elected to do.
We can’t vote ourselves out of this, unfortunately.
Think of all of the millions that Christians butchered over this… then, they destroyed every single trace of any other religion, erasing centuries of cultural history.
Today, Catholics alone own over 170 million acres of land, much of it stolen from those same people, and they enjoy tax-free status all over the world. Horrifying.
I think they sorta reasonably might have thought kamala would be another Bernie
Reasonably? For what reason?
Bernie didn’t win the Presidential election. He couldn’t even win the nomination.
“Let’s try something that has failed, instead of doing something fundamental that we have repeatedly used before to win elections.”
“Let’s try this idea! It’s just Trump, who has won before. No worries”
Come on, she is not that stupid.
They are not that stupid.
Side note: They collected over a billion dollars for this failure (that we know of). New record!
Trump can be replaced immediately by any hack TV personality. That Hercules guy, for example…
Or anyone with solid name recognition, like Bezos. It’s a really big deal for the stupid, and the stupid are most of the registered voters, after all.
Thank you, I never click on links anymore, not worth the occasional horror
I’m not fully convinced the conspiracy is that deep, but also if hard evidence came out saying so, I wouldn’t be surprised.
You don’t have to believe my word, but answer this question. You are a Democratic veteran. You KNOW for a FACT that you need Democratic and Independent voters to win. Simple mathematics demands that you do so to win.
Why, oh why, would you pursue the Republican vote? They’ve never done this before in a Presidential election. It can’t work. It’s never worked before, anyway.
This was discussed openly during the campaign, tons of Republican outreach and advertising with the Harris run… why?
I cannot think of any other reason, I would actually feel a lot better if there was a logical reason, somebody help my troubled mind
absurd claim even as a die-hard cynic.
He won’t nuke his top money makers, California and NY pay for half of the US military already
Yes. Also, giant man-faced scorpions wearing solid gold hats will climb out of the Earth to eat the unfaithful.
UNCANNY FORESIGHT
(not a joke, really says that. tax free. They don’t have to pay taxes for this shit)
Is this modern crusade three or four? I am losing track
The next logical step is obviously to kill their leadership, this worked very well in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia. Bastions of peace to this very day
Oops I have had a stroke
p.s. free one-way ticket for every Abrahamic faithful to the holy land, includes AR-15 and jug of gatorade.
Best money ever spent I tell you what
While you and I can look at this and go “Wow, that’s not logical, she’s way better than Trump”, the Democratic campaign should have had political scientists and psychologists that knew about this well-documented phenomenon. I imagine they did, and ignored it, because siding against Israel would’ve cost money.
D and R parties both need independent voters to win any election. For example, even if every D voted for a D, they would lose without independents voting for them in significant numbers. This has been a political fact for many years.
So… why did the Harris campaign target REPUBLICAN voters (instead of Ds and independents)? They wasted a lot of vital time on that (“He doesn’t need to know who you voted for” etc), and they knew that they would lose if they did so.
She knew it too, Harris isn’t stupid. She took a knee.
We don’t live in a world of “should”, in the real world of course it is demoralizing and affects the vote turnout.
We all know the US government will back Israel no matter what… and the voters can only punish the incumbent party for doing so.
65% of Democrats don’t want to finance Israel. Two thirds of their own party, that’s massive!
Voter turnout will continue to fall; D and R parties will continue to lose voters (now down to 30% registered voters each) and the Independents will continue to grow (now up to 40% of voters).
Why? Because our major parties ignore what their constituents actually want, and we can only punish one party every term.
It shouldn’t be that way, but it is.
A few “five minutes late” appointments go by, and before you know it they’re an hour behind! It’s crazy
Let’s blame them.
We’ve really had communism in the world.
You just don’t agree that it’s communism.
Reality is real, your idealistic purity is an impossibility. Deal with how things are, not how you wish them to be
No, that’s what the FBI is for.
They saw a problem after 9-11 (government agencies not communicating), and decided to solve it by adding further government agencies, all of which compete with each other for budget.
BRILLIANT
It doesn’t matter how Trump thinks, the US military isn’t going to nuke their own families, don’t be ridiculous