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[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 329 points 2 days ago (50 children)

Good analysis:

"Ppl like her because she’s real. Ppl perceive Trump as real too. Dems need to do a better job of just being real with ppl. Coming on social media and chatting with ppl, etc."

That's why people liked Bernie too.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 79 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Whoever was running Harris campaign needs to be barred from being in charge of any political campaign ever again; talk about legendary levels of mismanagement.

They had the golden opportunity to lean into the ‘weird’ meme and hammer Trump/Vance on that issue - but decided against it because it was what, ‘demeaning’?

The Dems need a firebrand, with a truely populist message and policies; rather than just lip service.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The dumbfucks who stayed home chose not to have elections again.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Implicitly. But if you look at the responses given in the article, I do not believe these people knew what they were choosing implicitly.

So many of them seem to be rejecting the government as it is, and stupid as it may be, Trump republicans are the only ones filling that void.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

The Tea Party and Occupy Wallstreet were movements created to drag the parties into areas where they'd rebel against what voters perceived as a ruination of the country.

One of them got their party switched out for heroes of their movement, the other was arrested en masse.

This is all you need to know

I mean besides that fact that the former thought black people where ruining the country and the latter blamed the fact that no one can fucking afford food or housing.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh I thought it was the dumbfucks in the Democrat party who chose to run a shit campaign and marginalised their voters into not showing up while they focused on getting lobbying money and chasing right wingers fault 🤷

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Both things can be true at the same time; the world isn’t black and white - but various shades of grey.

The Harris campaign was awfully milquetoast, but people’s indifference also played a major role.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Don't run a campaign that inspires indifference then.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 8 points 2 days ago

Yes, but that doesn't give a false sense of political superiority to people on the Internet

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