I’d say Liberals and not leftists but YMMV. “They” also did it to Bernie first. We’d be in a much better place right now if that never happened.
Trump was sane-washed constantly, and his fascist siege on the White House was downplayed across the board. Trump ran on being the “Peace President” and his claim “Kamala will send your sons into WW3” got echoed across the media landscape. The real problem is USA voters were financially miserable and are stupid enough to believe an insurrectionist is going to fix that. An accelerant to that problem is that our media landscape (𝕏, cable TV, and now Ellison’s aquisitions) is run by pedo Nazis, for pedo Nazis.
To those claiming “lefties…actively sabotage[d]” Kamala’s campaign… how!? Kamala got votes; it’s just Trump got more; and looking at the landscape around us, that makes sense.
When I hear this claim that Harris could have won, it always comes back to the rational details that make Kamala the better candidate. I voted for her, and believed she would easily win, for all those reasons; But we do not live in a rational climate.
I get why some still refuse to believe that fact—We’re all worn down and hurt, and the understanding that the people around you are stupid racist morons is not a pleasant view to have. That has implications outside of politics and headlines. That means your schoolteachers, coworkers, neighbors, doctors, police are stupid racist morons; And that is the reality of our nation, if not humanity.
Kamala didn’t lose because “Lefties” criticized her stance on Israel. The Democrats lost because 40% of the population got hooked on AI short-form deepfakes of black and brown folks causing chaos in public; 30-second clips and 3-hour podcasts whining about “woke entitled feminists” disguised as “dating advice” and “men’s mental health” content; cutesy cottagecore vibe content of “Little House on the Prairie” cosplayers; and Men With Microphones yapping Straight Up Lies through the working folk’s morning car commute. And this whole scene started well before 2024.
Good post, have 1 upvote.
The political climate is aiming for the lowest common denominator, and it’s working. Cambridge Analytica helped. There are a lot of racist pieces of shit in the United States
Not american, but come on. Americans preferred a incoherent, rambling, (highly probable) rapist, felon, coup-inciting, and obvious authoritarian fascist over her. The US was already lost.
If I was an American I would’ve voted for her, even as a leftist, even if the democrats also support genocide.
you’re angry the left voted for this woman you wanted to be president?
how boldly deranged.
Oh they voted for her? Is that how the story goes?
After all the gnashing of teeth its cool because they supposedly voted for her.
I’m an anarchist. I voted for her. You’re nursing a toxic resentment narrative. I don’t blame you, this shit is stressful.
There is one thing we are suppose to do at election time. Thats support the post primary candidate. Yes, I resent anyone who threw down post nomination.
Right, and that’s toxic. I can only think of one popular ideological tendency founded on resentment. You’ve gotta be able to move forward and bring people in, not stay stuck in 2024 scolding people you couldn’t convince.
I don’t know if it matters that you think it’s cool, but yes, many people on the left voted for Harris.
It’s weird you don’t know that, but I guess it explains your confused meme.
I wonder where those lefties where when she was getting raked everyday while Trump marched on to a W.
Waiting for her to say a single god damn position to actually defend her on.
You mean attack her relentlessly? I think you mean attack her relentlessly.
They were at her 8 weeks of stump speeches, and then they were at the polls, and then she lost.
Were you not paying any attention?
Obviously not, so:
a) The primary candidate of the Democratic Party stepped down a few months before the election, b) harris, without any sort of platform, ran in the United States, c) an institutionally racist and sexist country. Harris didn’t have much of a chance.
It’s wild you know so little about the election and are blaming her supporters for her loss.
Its wild how you are trying to rewrite everything that happened right here on lemmy and every other corner of the internet
Source?
Gestures Broadly at Everything
Edit: if you really dont know let me bring you up to speed
She needed no help, let’s be honest.
People like OP just want to take all criticism of her as a reason for her loss. Ironically, literally all major criticism of her was directed at trying to get her to change her position away from the the Biden admin because we didn’t want Trump to win. Biden was not popular and she basically ran on “I’m more of the same”.
They’re too stupid. They literally think that “change your position on X or you’re gonna lose” was a threat. No, it was advice to win. They didn’t listen.
She didn’t lose because leftist didn’t vote for her. We did. She lost because normies stayed home.
If that many leftist existed in this country. We’d have formed a vanguard by now. I wish I lived in this delusional world that OP lived in where leftist could sway the politics of this country in the way OP thinks we can.
Just an out of touch liberal stuck arguing with “leftist” on Twitter.
You contradict yourself. The issue you wanted kamala to shift on was a leftist issue, not a normie issue. Normie issues are housing and “the economy”. If shifting her position would have swung things her way it would have been with LEFTISTS.
The economy is something leftist criticized her on. Especially when she stopped talking about her most popular policy on grocery price controls. Instead she ran ads like this:
She told normies “Trump is right about the border. But vote for me”.
Youre demonstrating exactly what I am saying and regurgitating the exact talking points that leftists drug her down with.
Ok
Believe it or not, genocide isn’t very popular.
Got trump elected.
No… rigging the election and the DNC shooting itself in the thigh got him this term.
… sigh
The ones campaigning for this woman to lose even if it means ICE in the streets rounding up people for the concentration camps aren’t leftists. Those people are motivated by anger and hate more than compassion. And compassion is the fundamental value of the left.
Funny, they were calling themselves leftists at the time…
And trump says he’s a Christian. Don’t make it true
He fucks enough kids to qualify.
That’s because they’re liars. You don’t want to repeat their lies, it will make them stronger and make you and I weaker.
Oh, they were just liars. Got it. Leftists absolved. They were being astroturfed and not a single true leftist was willing to speak out against the astroturfers.
I’m an anarcho-antireal-communist. An off compass leftist, according to many. And I think the neutral voters who didn’t vote, or who spent so much effort amplifying a nuanceless message of hate against the Democrats, are fascism enablers.
Actions speak louder than words, and words speak louder than identities. If someone is a leftist in their heart of hearts, but has been manipulated into spreading propaganda that helps fascists, then they are not a leftist. Hearts of hearts don’t matter.
If someone votes left, campaigns left, protests left, and directly acts left, then they are leftists. You won’t catch these neutral voting centrists who identify as leftists doing any of that. You’ll catch them acting centrist.
You’re further left than they are, even if you’re a silly goose capitalist.
What?
What?
What?
Is this some kind of centrist “meme”??
Bernie 😭😭😭
I primaried with Bernie, what about it?
Lefties also fucked over Bernie. Who
wasis quite a bit better than Kamala.still is.
100%
I didn’t. I learned my lesson after Clinton and I didn’t actually hate Harris anyway. Nobody I know bailed on her either. I think she just failed to capture the middle, mostly.
There was a concerted effort by leftists all over to discredit this woman. Ask yourself.
Why does prolific poster return2ozma have zero posts older than 1 year on c/political memes?
Leftists were being used and it worked.
zero posts older than 1 year… so they had no bearing on Kamala’s election campaign, which we lost on November 5th, 2024
… not suspicious at all to you…
