Is this wise? As an outside observer I had the impression that Harris lost in part because of systematic, subtle and overt racism and sexism. All this applies to AOC, too. Do the Democrats want to lose? Don’t they have some sort of JFK look-alike, people actually want to vote? It’s not as if appearance wasn’t way more important in the US than things like the actual political agenda.
As another outside observer I’d disagree that was the reason she lost. Yeah there’s racism and sexism issues in the US, but in the last US election both AOC and Bernie got a lot of votes to elect them as senators on the senator ballot from people who also voted Trump on the presidential ballot.
AOC and Bernie did some polls on social media asking these people why they voted for both them and Trump. The responses were typically like “you’re not part of the political elite” and “you say it how it is” and “you seem like you genuinely care about Americans”.
IMO, Kamala is considered too close to the democratic political establishment and that the American public is desperately craving some more (mostly economically) progressive politics which AOC and Bernie have been talking about for years.
If the DNC run Kamala in 2028 then the Trump administration will project it as “Biden, Harris, and the elites want to be president forever, so why not pick me instead”.
Sexism and racism seems like an obvious answer and one that it’s easy to find evidence for the existence of. But if you break it down a bit further, sexists and racists vote Republican anyway.
You have a voter turnout of about 60%. That’s nothing. If all of your sexists and rapists were republicans, you’d have significantly less than 30% sexists and racists. But I strongly suspect that only a fraction of your republicans can be called blatant sexists and racists. Hint: The world isn’t black and white and sexism and racism are systematic problems that can’t be boiled down to left vs right.
Is this wise? As an outside observer I had the impression that Harris lost in part because of systematic, subtle and overt racism and sexism. All this applies to AOC, too. Do the Democrats want to lose? Don’t they have some sort of JFK look-alike, people actually want to vote? It’s not as if appearance wasn’t way more important in the US than things like the actual political agenda.
As another outside observer I’d disagree that was the reason she lost. Yeah there’s racism and sexism issues in the US, but in the last US election both AOC and Bernie got a lot of votes to elect them as senators on the senator ballot from people who also voted Trump on the presidential ballot.
AOC and Bernie did some polls on social media asking these people why they voted for both them and Trump. The responses were typically like “you’re not part of the political elite” and “you say it how it is” and “you seem like you genuinely care about Americans”.
IMO, Kamala is considered too close to the democratic political establishment and that the American public is desperately craving some more (mostly economically) progressive politics which AOC and Bernie have been talking about for years.
If the DNC run Kamala in 2028 then the Trump administration will project it as “Biden, Harris, and the elites want to be president forever, so why not pick me instead”.
Why are you writing Karmala? Her name is Kamala.
Whoops, spelling mistake, thanks for pointing that out.
Sexism and racism seems like an obvious answer and one that it’s easy to find evidence for the existence of. But if you break it down a bit further, sexists and racists vote Republican anyway.
I know a few old Dems who voted for trump this year because they didn’t think a woman could be president
She was also unlikable as a person. I don’t think I even heard much from her until she was foisted into running for president.
You have a voter turnout of about 60%. That’s nothing. If all of your sexists and rapists were republicans, you’d have significantly less than 30% sexists and racists. But I strongly suspect that only a fraction of your republicans can be called blatant sexists and racists. Hint: The world isn’t black and white and sexism and racism are systematic problems that can’t be boiled down to left vs right.
I would also say the people didn’t ask for Harris/Biden - the DNC just picked who they wanted
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She lost bcs she was a racist heartless tone-deaf ghoul