I was wrong too. And I am glad people didn’t listen to me.
I was convinced this was true because the message was constantly shoved down my throat
This is pretty much what I was arguing before it happened.
Never been so glad to be so wrong.
Twitter is such a great site to read threads. all you need to do to understand what’s happening is to read in order of 5, 4, 1, 3, 2.
I get the logic was sound at the time but the logic seems to assume that this is all a game with predefined rules and strategy.
Like yeah, incumbents typically won before, but would that hold up when everyone had an audible groan about voting for Biden?
I feel like most of political strategy could be replaced by just trying to understand the people voting, rather than bundling up correlations into strategy and blindly following them.
Like I feel like if you talked to most random average people, they’d have told you about the oppressive hopelessness they’re feeling. Maybe they don’t know why they feel that, but the general mood from everyone is that nothing’s actively good is going to happens.
So of course getting a new candidate with a hope themed campaign will reawaken our passion, incumbent be damned.
PugJesus won’t like this one
How long until he chides someone for being a fascist enabler for not being a Democrat bootlicker?
I can’t stand the “never criticize a dem or you’re helping the republicans” crowd, it’s how we ended up where we are now. Dems got complacent and ratcheted to the right to appease a “broader base” (how did that work out?)… give the people strong social policies and you will win in landslides
And we cannot stand the “I’ll let trump win if I have to” crowd who pretend they aren’t fascist
You won’t find that here. But I won’t be silenced about the dumb shit Dems do. Luckily it seems to be happening less this go around. Enabling the genocide in Gaza is still very bad and Biden’s administration (and possibly, by extension, Harris’s campaign) should be criticized heavily for it
