“The people” that they didn’t listen to are the 16 million that voted in 2020 that stayed home this election. The liberal politicians that work for the liberal ideas are repeatedly hamstrung by the DNC.
And where is your evidence that those 16 million are Progressives who stayed home because Kamala was not lefty enough rather than, say, centrists who thought Kamala leaned too far left?
Maybe there’s a more recent poll, but this one from 2022 suggests that there are very few people who’d have say this election out because Kamala was too left leaning.
This article Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold - CounterPunch.org argues there was not a single county in the US where Harris outperformed Biden in the 2020 election.
Some of the reasons: Harris “couldn’t honestly say she’d run a vigorous campaign that championed the poor, the downtrodden, and the voiceless or that she’d fought for peace, and human dignity, and to fix an unraveling climate.”
“From the outside, Harris’s entire campaign seemed to be about saving an economic system (neoliberalism) that she described falsely as “democracy,” which isn’t working for large segments of both the political left and right; at the same time she and Biden were flouting an international system of laws in order to arm and finance a genocide in Gaza. The hypocrisies were too transparent to sustain.”
Shame on her for choosing to “turn black” /s
Lemme see. 16 million people voted for Biden, probably the closest thing to a centrist the Democrats have, and then stayed home instead of voting for Harris. And the takeaway from this is Democrats need to run someone more liberal?
Someone further to the left, not a filthy Liberal.
I heard some patently bullshit reasons from some MAGA supporters I know about what was wrong with Harris. A friend of mine, a fairly successful lawyer, was against Harris because of the way she handled either evidence or witnesses in a case she was prosecuting years ago. My sister said, “She didn’t even know we have soldiers stationed in an active warzone.”
To be completely honest, I don’t know if either one of those assertions are true. Assuming for a moment they are true, how this can disqualify Harris while Trump’s litany of lies, criminal activity, and general skullduggery aren’t is beyond me. These two decided they wanted Trump and came up with a stupid reason to justify their choice.
You think Harris, the tough of crime prosecutor, is further left than Biden?
Even if that were true, I think there are more people further left now. People that voted for him 2 years ago that wouldn’t now. Watching a genocide play by play will do that.
Republicans won the White House, took control of the Senate and will widen their lead in the House when all the votes are counted. Where are the leftist voters?
Absolutely. The problem with centrism for the Ds is that it’s milquetoast enough to get enthusiasm from no one, while also not being progressive enough to solve anyone’s economic problems.
If the Democrats could have gotten themselves someone who would be equivalent to a 50-year old Bernie Sanders, they’d be in very strong position.
It would be easier to redefine the question. What could the Democratic Party have done differently.
Starting with the Democratic Primary for the 2020 election How did Harris do?. She pulled out in Dec of 2019 without much support.
Biden vowed to pick a black woman as VP which at best is a condescending criteria. He Chose Harris. Why?
He then assigns her the task of dealing with the flood of immigrants that he himself created and by doing so throws her under the bus.
This flood of immigrants dilutes the job market and provides cheap labor at the expense of other people in the market. Union workers, Black and Hispanic people. In other words people in the Democrat base that were considered a given. The Teamsters would not support Harris and Trump was able to siphon off Black and Hispanic voters.
Biden’s failing mental capacity was hidden by main stream media until it was so painfully obvious in the debate that the party calculated he would fail against Trump. But it was so late in the campaign it paints them into a corner. Now they’re stuck with a candidate that polled worse than Biden in the previous Primary.
The Democratic Party could have tasked the Media outlets with stories about Biden and forced a Primary to get rid of him. It would be easy to unleash a torrent of “reliable sources” that said Biden was in decline.
It was not Harris that created this situation, it was the people behind the curtain and a willing Media that did their bidding. In the space of a couple of weeks Biden went from a leading candidate to a doddering old man. That is something that didn’t just happen overnight and it was kept from the public. There was no time to reinvent Harris and she did nothing to distance herself from Biden.
Staying home and waiting to set up a socialist utopia once Trump moves the historical dialectic along by imposing fascism, of course.
Meanwhile in real life when the supply of immigrants dries up those jobs just go undone.
They don’t go undone. The wage is kept low by a flood of labor who take the job. The wage would otherwise be forced upward by market force and/or government fiat.
Yes, I’m quite certain that after they kick all the ‘’‘Mexicans’‘’ out a wage increase bill will be the very next thing Republicans do.
Not embraced war criminals
Not have a woman who bragged about drugging and robbing men at her rally.
Not lie about Bidens mental acuity.
Where are all the leftist voters? You mean classic libs like Rogan and Gabbard and RFK and Elon? Yall drove them out with your hysteria and being war pigs and calling people garbage and nazis
And the hilarious thing is you don’t have anyone left to run who could win a dog catcher contest.
The GOP has RFK, Gabbard, Vivek…a number of viable choices.
Look in the mirror Dems.
That’s your idea of “leftist”?
And if they don’t want to be called Nazis they can stop admiring Hitler.
And your source on that is who? Some war pig general? Keep running with that. Its done a bang-up job. Oh wait…you lost every arm of the govt. Have you found the piss tape yet?
If you have time, read The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
If agricultural workers are deported by Trump, we will import the produce. And the higher paid Americans who supervise immigrant workers will go on unemployment.
Ideally, Harris should have explained that the law needs to change to allow in a much higher number of authorized immigrants. Employers in my area do not want to hire unauthorized workers, but often have little choice. As for raising wages, one problem is imports becoming competitive. Another is that native Americans quit because of work being hard and because new workers reasonably start on undesirable shifts.
But all that is too complicated for campaign speeches. Plus, unfortunately, the mistaken narrative about immigration lowering wages seems so logically correct that it seems impossible to argue people out of it with data.
How many did you win?