torritwho would have thought that running on the same neoliberal obama platform that was tired and unpopular by 2014, having no distinctive policies or even promises to speak of (markedly with no mention of medicare for all or raising the federal minimum wage) and steeling yourself to keep sending billions to ukraine and israel while a large part of your populace faces poverty on a daily basis will lose you almost any democratic election???
at a time when americans overwhelmingly support populist leftist policies with fucking missouri voting to raise state minimum wage and enshrine statutory sick pay, the democrats once again decide that sucking the golden cock of private equity is more important than actually being in office. you can partly blame inflation sure, but the simple fact of the matter is that too many repugnant characters in the dnc, including kamala, whose brother in law is the ceo of uber, just love lining their own pockets and are all too ready to treat their base with nothing short of open contempt. a lot of americans would spit in their faces if they came across any and i honestly cant blame them. country needs a modern fdr or yall are doomed
Sad day in America when a Brit knows why Kamala lost more than the average American. Trump didn't get more votes than he did in 2020, he actually lost about a million voters compared to 2020. It's just that Kamala had more than 10 million fewer votes than Biden got. Biden ran on a relatively progressive campaign (student loan debt forgiveness, public option healthcare, legalizing marijuana, etc) for an American president. What policies did Kamala have? $50k tax credit for small business owners? Who gives a fuck, how many middle or lower class people does that help? The Democrats didn't give any popular policies for their base to WANT to go out to vote for. That's it. They gave us a boring, stale candidate that caved to as many Republican policies as they could. We used to talk about amnesty for all undocumented immigrants without a violent crime record, and Kamala's position was to instead try to appear just as heartless with deporting immigrants that've been here for decades as Trump.
The Democrats will unfortunately never put forward a legitimately progressive candidate. We saw this in 2016 and 2020 when they basically assassinated the Bernie campaign twice. Because, yeah, they ultimately still serve the ultra-wealthy and are not a people's party.