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Originally Posted by mapletreeway
Limon, what is your (level-headed) take on the state of the Democratic Party? What has gone wrong?
I have heard they need to shift more moderate, they need to shift more left, they need a populist, democracy is rigged because voters are too stupid, etc.
I think Harris's campaign was awful:
Biden should never ever ever have been allowed to run a second term. He wasted most of the campaign time on himself and only dropped out by force under the condition that he hand picks Kamala. Kamala is a weak candidate without much charisma and would have never won an actual primary. The wild enthusiasm after the switch was entirely because the Democrats went from 5% equity to 40%, and had absolutely nothing to do with Kamala as a person.
Kamala fails to give even one concrete example of how she would differ from Biden, a horrible strategy when everybody already hates Biden. She babbles incoherently sometimes. She forfeits the entire young male vote voluntarily, letting her opponents lay out a one-sided argument on podcasts that tens of millions listen to.
Walz added absolutely nothing to her chances. He lost the VP debate. He was only picked for soundbites on cable news and then suddenly stopped making public appearances. Luckily it was a blowout and she didn't look immortally stupid for passing on Shapiro and losing PA in a closer race.
What do you make of the messaging around social issues? That certainly is losing the Dems millions of votes but I can't see someone actually taking a stand against wokeism and trans stuff and succeeding within the party. The core economic goals of the Dems are drowned out by endless attacks of far-left social ideas.
I voted Harris if that wasn't obvious
if you spend any time hanging out in male dominated environments (casino, country club, etc) you know that a democratic woman is never gonna be president, even california men, who are generally liberal by national standards, were more than happy to openly refer to her as a "dumb bitch" or whatever. Dems have no problems really, biden won easily, they just need to push candidates that guys can defend without looking like pussys. its sad but true. most men are extremely fragile, FOLLOWERS. The amount of courage it takes to defend a woman, even against a convicted felon scam artist, is beyond most weak men. So the echo chamber, basically among all groups of men, was extremely anti kamala the same as it was for hillary, literally exactly the same. even though all the policies of biden and obama, who won easily, were exactly the same, in every way, as hillary and kamala. All that said, the world macro environment agains incumbents in the face of inflation caused by the crazy stimulus of supposed republicans during the pandemic, was likely overwhelming. Post pandemic incumbents were shellacked around the globe regardless of whether the were conservative or liberal.
