• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Or course, being moderates, they didn’t mean a word of it.

    But it does show that even feigned progressive populism brings out the voters that running to the right alienates.

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      8 hours ago

      Oh for fuck’s sake. Attitudes like that are why candidates don’t bother going for the left’s votes.

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        You can’t meet half way between “a fair world where human life has value” and "complete corporate monopolization of everything. "

        The Dems made the choice to continue bending the knee to the rich instead of representing the people who elected them

        Wanting leftists to support leftist policies instead of the rich is totally reasonable

        I voted for Kamala who was the only correct choice but can’tblame othersfor being apathetic.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        You will accept any excuse to move to the right and only the right. You already got genocide support and loved every last second of it.

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      Yeah, but read the article, look at the policies those people campaigned on, and google whether or not Harris also backed those economic policies. She did. She supported and ran on most of those policies.

      IMHO, this was probably more of an issue around how effective the candidates, and their opponents, were at getting the policies or “vibes” in voter’s minds.

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        She legitimately didn’t run on any of those policies. Two weeks before the election she told everyone that she would do nothing different from Biden. She ran on the platform that Biden was a good president and nothing would change when the entire country was screaming for cha.ge

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        18 hours ago

        She supported and ran on most of those policies.

        She ran on “don’t do anything different from Biden” and “Look! We got Cheney’s endorsement!” and “shut up, the economy’s fine!”

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          18 hours ago

          Of course they were taking it seriously. You can criticise the strategy, but clearly they took it very seriously.

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          Yeah, just saying that the policies mentioned in the article were not what made those people win or made Harris lose. They basically had the same policies.

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            I disagree, from the article those candidates had more anti-corporate policies that addressed the issue of cost of living. The closest thing Harris ran on was to crack down on Price gouging, which was/is one of her most popular positions, yet she also did not campaign enough on that front and contrasted it with housing deregulation